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<br /> <br />1. Discussion with Commission technical support staff on any issues commissioners are <br />experiencing while utilizing the online redistricting tool (ESRI) for creating mapping <br />plans at https://redistricting.hawaii.esriemcs.com/redistricting/index.html. Commissioners <br />may use this opportunity to ask questions about the tool. <br /> <br />KOSSOW: Thank you. Commissioners, this is an opportunity for us to share any issues <br />we are experiencing so far with the online redistricting tool that the public is also able to <br />use, if they have been. It’s understood that you are able to reach out at any time to <br />support staff if you have any questions along the way if you have started to use the <br />program. If there are any thoughts or questions, concerns, or issues, this is the time and <br />space for technical support staff in Hilo. Is there any discussion? Mr. Lopez. <br /> <br />LOPEZ: Thank you. Thank you staff for being here. Before you leave the table, if you <br />would grant us the contact information for whoever it is we should be asking questions <br />of. For now, in taking my first stab at this, my first inclination was to try to get my <br />percentages within acceptable tolerance just by moving census blocks between districts. I <br />was really successful on the west side. I got ‘em all. I got all these green checkmarks. <br />Where I’m taking real gas is in trying to find a balance between Districts 2, 3, and 4. The <br />reason is that the census blocks that are within the district are too large to move into <br />another district without throwing it out of whack. For instance, in District 3 I’ve come up <br />with a negative 158. In District 2, I have a negative 317. But in 4, I have a positive 222. <br />Well, I can’t move 222 or even a 150. The census blocks are like 1,400. How do I get <br />around this kind of dilemma when the adjoining census blocks are too big to try to get <br />some population movement within these narrow boundaries? Any help there? What are <br />my latitudes? I suppose. <br /> <br />SAIKI: Commissioner Lopez, this is Cori from the Elections Division. <br /> <br />KOSSOW: Could you put your mic a little bit closer? Sorry. <br /> <br />SAIKI: Can you hear me now? <br /> <br />KOSSOW: Loud and clear. <br /> <br />SAIKI: We run into that problem too. Unfortunately, the census blocks cannot be split so <br />even when we’re attempting to play with the maps and stuff like that, even we’re running <br />into that problem. I really don’t know how to fix that. I don’t know if there is a fix for it. <br /> <br />LOPEZ: So we have to live with the deviation and justify it, of course. <br /> <br />SAIKI: Yes. <br /> <br />LOPEZ: Oh, well that made my life easier. Thank you. <br /> <br /> 22 <br /> <br />