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might be a conflict. So what we’re trying to get to is, the bottom of--your role, oversight <br />of the County of Hawai‘i Office of Elections, and if there is any conflict in your <br />involvement with your daughter’s campaign. It’s more so your duties as council chair <br />and oversight of the Elections Office that we’re concerned with, all right? Does that <br />answer your question? <br /> <br />MR. YAGONG: Can I make a couple more comments, if you don’t mind? <br /> <br />MR. DILL: Well, does that answer your question? <br /> <br />MR. YAGONG: Yeah, it does. <br /> <br />MR. DILL: Okay. <br /> <br />MR. YAGONG: I appreciate your comments, Mr. Dill. It’s just that when you have a <br />situation like this which obviously is going to be covered by the press, and a decision has <br />been made to move forward, as the person that certainly has a stake in this, I just want to <br />get more clarification as to why. Hopefully you’re not offended by my questions. I just <br />want to make sure that I understand why is it that the Board is asking to move forward. <br />If you want further clarification in regards to anything to do with my role with the <br />elections, I’d be very happy to answer those questions for you. But I just wanted to make <br />sure that when I leave today, at the very least what we do ascertain as part of the record <br />is when you take a look at what was brought forward as a complaint by the State Election <br />Office, or at least a _________ by the State Election Office, it talks about myself being a <br />precinct official, serving in that role, that capacity. I want to make sure that that is <br />completely stricken. That’s number one. Number two, because you’d asked me several <br />times in regards to my relationship, my role with my daughter and her running for office, <br />I just want to make absolutely clear that as far as my role as a council person, or my role <br />in dealing with elections, has absolutely nothing to do - <br /> <br />MR. DILL: So what you just said in terms of having a stake in this election, you’re now <br />saying you don’t have a stake. We can have her read back the minutes, but you’re <br />talking about having the press here and having a stake in this election. <br /> <br />MR. YAGONG: Well as a person that’s being complained about. It’s my name on the <br />docket, right? <br /> <br />MS. SCHOEN: I’m sorry, Mr. Chair, can I just interrupt just so that—Mr. Yagong <br />actually brought up a good point in that actually there hasn’t been a decision made as to <br />what the Board is going to do. So I think he said you guys have decided to move forward, <br />and that decision has not been made. If the Board were to initiate its own investigation <br />or hold an informal hearing, your rules require the Board to agree on that, and then a <br />resolution has to be drafted so that the nature and scope of the informal hearing or the <br />investigation is limited and everybody knows what it’s about. So it’s clear, nothing—as I <br />hear—has been decided. And so – <br /> <br />MR. DILL: Thank you for clarifying that. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />