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minutes 05-31-00Page 22 of 54 <br />RAY: All in favor. <br />RAY, ALONZO, BESS, HERKES, HIGASHI, IRVINE, KUROZAWA, SANTANGELO: Aye. <br />Commissioner Martin abstained. <br />RAY: Okay, vote on the main motion as amended. All in favor? <br />RAY, ALONZO, BESS, HERKES, HIGASHI, IRVINE, KUROZAWA, SANTANGELO: Aye. <br />Commissioner Martin abstained. <br />RAY: Now, we’ve got, as provided by Mr. Yuen, the review of the exact text of the proposed Charter Amendments, the <br />review of the ballot questions and the review of the Digest. How do you suggest we do this process-wise? <br />YUEN: Just have a general discussion and we could go point-by-point, or I’m not sure if the Commission members have <br />individual items they want to talk about. Certainly, though, I would like the Commission to specifically deal with the <br />additions I put in the Non-partisan election that are discussed in my letter of May 18 because there are a couple of things that <br />have not specifically been voted on by the Commission. <br />IRVINE: Chris, if we just vote on the version sent out by you on this date, is that all right? We got your discussion. <br />YUEN: That would take care – just so the Commission did vote on that and approve that, then I’d be comfortable with that. <br />IRVINE: I guess I’d like to move that we accept number 1, the non-partisan amendment as presented to us by Chris today. <br />RAY: Do I have a second? <br />SANTANGELO: Second. <br />RAY: Discussion? <br />HERKES: What is ‘insofar as applicable’ mean? <br />YUEN: That’s because the State Laws on elections are written toward where you have partisan elections, Primary and <br />General, and so that’s the parts that are not applicable are the parts that deal with the nomination of candidates by parties and <br />replacement of candidates by the parties, and the like. But we have to say that our County elections still do generally follow <br />the State Law because we’re having them – the whole code of how to do an election is in the State Law; where you have the <br />polling places, when you have the proclamation of the election, when you have to file. All those things are spelled out in the <br />State Law. We don’t have a County Law that says all those things and the simplest thing is to just let’s follow – That’s what <br />everybody does now, follow the State Law, except that we have a non-partisan election now. <br />RAY: Roland. <br />HIGASHI: Chris, are there different meanings for majority? Are there different words for majority? Majority, does it have <br />different meanings? Simple majority? <br />YUEN: No, not the term ‘majority’ itself. I think that’s clearly understood. The ambiguity comes in whether you count the <br />blank or spoiled, and we went through that and made a decision that you don’t count them in what is your total number of <br />votes. So, I don’t think that there’s any ambiguity in saying that to win outright in the first election, you need a majority. That <br />simply means if you have more than half plus a vote. If you have an even number of votes, you divide that in two and add <br />one and you get the majority, and if you have an odd number of votes, you divide it in two and you round off to the higher <br />number and that’s the majority. <br />HIGASHI: Okay, does Oahu says 50% plus one vote? <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 05-31-00.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />