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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> '98 JUL 23 = <br /> <br /> UFF, u= : _ <br /> THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLE <br /> <br /> COUNTY OF HAWAII <br /> <br /> <br /> In the Matter of the ) <br /> Initiative Petition of ) CERTIFICATE OF SUFFICIENCY; <br /> PARENTS AGAINST ) EXHIBIT "A" <br /> IRRADIATION. ) <br /> <br /> <br /> CERTIFICATE OF SUFFICIENCY <br /> <br /> <br /> Pursuant to Article XI, Hawaii County Charter, the initiative petition submitted by the <br /> PARENTS AGAINST IRRADIATION, entitled: "Initiative Petition - Amending Chapter 14, <br /> <br /> Article 8 (Nuclear Energy) of the Hawaii County Code", and amended by a supplemental filing <br /> <br /> on July 20, 1998, is hereby certified and deemed to be sufficient. The original petition was <br /> <br /> deemed to have been insufficient on July 7, 1998 on the grounds that the petition "is signed by <br /> less than the required number of qualified voters of the County." As explained in the Certificate <br /> <br /> of Insufficiency, the petition must contain 7,346 valid signatures to be deemed sufficient. The <br /> <br /> petition as filed on June 19, 1998 was found to have contained 6,876 valid signatures, 470 less <br /> than required. The petition as amended is deemed to contain not less than 7,852 signatures of <br /> <br /> qualified voters of the County. This determination is made after a computerized and manual <br /> <br /> review of 1,025 of the approximately 2,100 additional signatures submitted. The reviews found <br /> <br /> that the supplemental filing contains not less than 976 additional valid signatures. The number <br /> of validated signatures will be increased when all remaining additional signatures are reviewed. <br />