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• <br />these things to cut down on confusion. <br />RAY: I think that's something really worth looking at (indiscernible). I'm sure <br />there's a rationale for all these different, you know, percentages and whatever, different cases, .but <br />it sure is confusing to read. <br />WURDEMAN: And a particular example I point out is this business about blank, spoiled <br />ballots. Well, you count them, you come to your 15%; or you don't count them. And qualified <br />voter is defined in one of the articles but not in the other. Things like that. <br />HERKES: <br />RAY: <br />Can I ask the -? <br />Marni. <br />HERKES: Our attorney that we've hired, how the -, to research how this conflicts <br />with State law, because I think some of this we don't get to choose. So I think it's in the State <br />law what -, how you do blank votes and how you identify yourself and, I mean -. When I work in <br />the polling place, all that stuff comes from the State, it doesn't come from County, so I'm <br />confused as to what we can change and what we can't change and why it's in the Charter. Thank <br />you. <br />YUEN: I can -. <br />HERKES: Okay. <br />YUEN: Look at that, yeah. <br />BESS: Well, Mr. Wurdeman is here. Perhaps you have researched that area. Not <br />that Chris wouldn't go ahead and research. Her question, her legal question. <br />WURDEMAN: Why is it in the Charter? I don't know why it's in the Charter. <br />BESS: Or the extent of the conflict with State law, if any. <br />YUEN: Just speaking generally though, most of the -, most of the stuff that's in the <br />Charter is within the County's right to control. For example, whether you count blank ballots or <br />not on a Charter amendment or an initiative, the Charter -. No, I'm sorry. For Charter <br />amendment, there is a State law that talks about when you count blank votes for a Charter <br />amendment, but for an initiative or a referendum, the Charter can specify whether you count the <br />blanks in reaching 50 percent plus one or not. Then there are State laws that cover the State law <br />things. The things like how do you get to be a registered voter, where you vote, those sorts of <br />things are in State law. <br />14 <br />