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<br />MARTIN: Yeah.
<br />YUEN: We would let them testify but not necess -, you’re not going to go back unless somebody, you
<br />know, unless somebody on the Commission really wants to do that.
<br />MARTIN: I guess one last question. Pertaining to what was mentioned already earlier about we had
<br />briefly discussed the possibility of a special election, and then we mulled it around as to formatting that
<br />particular issue, and what came up was, well, State law supercedes. And it’s my contention, and possibly
<br />some other Commissioners here that if this is a County Charter and it deals directly with County and
<br />nothing pertaining to the State, do we not have maybe some leeway that we could take a look at
<br />something different? Did you ever come up with anything like that where State law, like you was
<br />mention that one head -, you guys had to put in, it’s 15 actually, provides that the Charter Commission
<br />prepare the ballot format for amendments it proposed, you know. You guys actually said, okay, there’s a
<br />State law. We want to make a change here, and thank you for doing it, and we’ll make the decision this
<br />time pertaining to what we have.
<br />YUEN: Gee, I have to look at that, because I’m not sure that State law says anything about -. You know,
<br />the Charter says something, the Commission can ask for a special election to vote on it. I’m not sure that
<br />there’s a State law that says you can’t.
<br />MARTIN: Well, not so much can’t.
<br />YUEN: Yeah.
<br />MARTIN: I think the format as to how we go about the election is what the discussion was being mulled
<br />around, yeah, mulled over, I should say.
<br />WURDEMAN: My recollection is what was being discussed was the possibility of running a special
<br />election under some kind of a more economical method such as mail in ballots or -.
<br />MARTIN: Correct.
<br />WURDEMAN: Things like that.
<br />MARTIN: Correct.
<br />WURDEMAN: That are not provided for in the State law. And I think probably if it ever went to court,
<br />they’d say the elections are a matter of state-wide interest, that Chapter 11, which is the election chapter,
<br />would prevail. That would be my guess. I don’t know what Chris think about that.
<br />YUEN: Well, I haven’t thought, I haven’t thought about it so -. But, you know, I don’t know. I’m
<br />cautious about, you know, sitting here and giving you an opinion on something I haven’t really thought
<br />about very much. But you get -, if you try to do an election by procedure that people are not familiar
<br />with, that’s -, that in itself raises questions from people.
<br />MARTIN: Sure. Well, I just think that, you know, as a Commission, and setting forth law that pertains
<br />and directs our County, it may take some changes, yeah. I’m sure like you guys put into place, you
<br />know, single district. That was a big change.
<br />L’ORANGE: I think practically speaking though, you don’t have the time to even think of a special
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