2000-05-10 Charter Commission Minutes

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Transcript of Meeting of May 10, 2000Page 23 of 62 HERKES: In the first election. YUEN: In the first election, or the Primary, if you got 50% plus one, you’re elected outright, and you don’t count blank or spoiled ballots. So, the way it was voted on the first time, if there are only two people running, unless they tie, guarantee somebody’s going to be elected outright at the first election. The way Maui does it is if there are only two people running for the office, they skip the first election and they run them off in the General, and I thought that was what the motion was because that’s the way Maui works. But in Maui, and in the way that we had discussed earlier, if there are three or more running, and somebody gets 50% plus one out of those three, then they’re elected outright in the first election and you don’t go on. HERKES: And that takes them out of the second election, however. It takes both people out of the second election. YUEN: That does take it out of the second. HERKES: Well, it takes all three, but you’re not even taking two into the second election, the top two. YUEN: Right. You can do it, that you always take the top two into the second election. That’s not been what has been discussed. HERKES: Nobody does that now. YUEN: Right. Let me look at Maui’s again to make absolutely sure, but I’m pretty sure that that’s not the way they do it in Maui. HERKES: Sue’s point was a good point, that more people vote in the General Election. You have less candidates running in the General Election. IRVINE: The bottom paragraph talks about ties in the Primary. SANTANGELO: But we could go back to what we just deleted too. That’s that situation when you have three or more running, very seldom would you have someone get a majority vote. IRVINE: Yes. HERKES: Well, getting 50%, yes. YUEN: Maui is as I discussed it, and if you – No, I’m sorry. Sue is correct. If there are three or more, they automatically take two into the General. So, if we want to call that, there’s three different ways of doing it. SANTANGELO: Adding expense. IRVINE: I just think people - YUEN: So I then need to ask if Sue wants to make the amendment so that you automatically take two into the General – you take the top two into the General, or do you want to only pass two automatically into the General, if there are only two running? file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 05-10-00.html7/1/2011