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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Murashige, Laura <br /> <br /> From: Tom Walker [trwelect@hawaii.rr.com] <br /> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:18 AM <br /> To: counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us <br /> Subject: Fw: Resolution 474-06, introduced by Ms. Isbell <br /> Dear Mayor Kim: <br /> <br /> Although I'm sure you have received many copies of Mr. Blann's letter which follows, <br /> please be assured it expresses our feelings more eloquently than we could have expressed <br /> them ourselves. Therefore, also please be assured that we are appalled at the audacity of <br /> your administration in funding the Kuhio registration and voting location prior to the <br /> primary and allowing it to continue prior to the general election. Such flagrant bias is <br /> simply beyond belief; it goes so much further beyond previous favoritism shown to East <br /> Hawaii and concerns such a basic, sacred right of all American citizens that the action is <br /> absolutely unbelievable. <br /> You and your administration have certainly disgraced this island. <br /> Alice Walker, Kailua-Kona <br /> Original Message <br /> From: "blann" <blann@verizon.net> <br /> To: <blann@gte.net> <br /> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 7:52 PM <br /> Subject: Fw: Resolution 474-06, introduced by Ms. Isbell <br /> <br /> > From: "blann" <blann@verizon.net> <br /> > To: <counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us> <br /> > Cc: "Mayor Harry Kim" <cohmayor@co.hawaii.hi.us> <br /> > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 7:48 PM <br /> > Subject: Resolution 474-06, introduced by Ms. Isbell <br /> > <br /> Aloha County Council, <br /> One of the things the USA prides itself on is the concept of the free <br /> and fair election . I was therefore very unhappy to find that Hawaii <br /> County has the elections office with 12 full time Mall employees in a <br /> $103,000/annum <br /> high visibility retail location with stated purpose of registering voters <br /> and increasing <br /> absentee voting in Hilo, but with similar programs nowhere else in the <br /> county. <br /> Our tax dollars are being used solely to enhance the voting power of <br /> Hilo vs. the <br /> rest of the county, rather than as part of a county wide voter <br /> enhancement program. <br /> I estimate the salaries and overhead at around $1,000,000/ annum. <br /> If in the future, a Council person from Hilo were to run for Mayor, the <br /> question <br /> could be raised as to whether he engineered this voter registration <br /> program for personal <br /> benefit. Let us not put the County Government in the awkward position of <br /> anyone raising <br /> such questions. <br /> We do note that in the primary election just passed, the Kuhio location <br /> had seven <br /> times the absentee vote of the average of the other 4 polls; a 600% <br /> increase! Clearly f I O ~I <br /> 11 1 <br /> this is not a fair election, and renewal of this lease will make res~C,,,,,• No. <br /> 1 Ref. To:Pres <br /> Ref. Date ~ He <br />