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• elected official who is expected to run for re-election as well as persons who have indicated that they intend to run for ofide. These persons will be sent a Questionnaire which the League has developed. The information received back will be documented in the "Voter Information Pamphlet". We have styled our "Voter Information Pamphlet" after the County of San Diego, which we believe best exemplifies such a wealth of information. • The League encourages the Charter Review Commission to include a proposed Amendment to the Charter which requires this County to provide a "Voter Information Pamphlet" for both the Primary and General Elections. Such an Amendment should also allow the County to work with non-profit, nonpartisan organizations which may be willing to do the research for such an informative piece. There've been numerous requests in past years to the election officers of the state and county to provide a comprehensive "Voter Information Pamphlet" and the excuse has always been that it would require more positions to do the research and would be cost prohibitive. We believe that a partnership between the county and non-profit organizations can make this proposal a reality and come under budget. Please note in the sample Pamphlet I have here, and this is from San Diego, that there is a thank you to the "Soroptimist International of San Diego", and they are thanked for their involvement in the election process. Let me show it to you. Right here, at the bottom, there's a Soroptimist insignia and l was shocked to see it, and I thought, whoa, they're right with us. So, anyway, they were very involved and they helped to get volunteers, as well. We also believe that Hawaii County could show the way for the state to provide a "Voter Information Pamphlet". But in the meantime, our residents in this county should have the advantage of having information on candidates for office, proposed Amendments to the Charter, proposed Amendments to the State Constitution and general information on voting. We thank you for this opportunity to provide our input on the important work you are doing, as you're also volunteers, for the future of the county and the Charter. If we can be of service to you, please feel free to contact us. At this time, I'd like to pass this over to you and have you - one at one end and one at the other. That's the San Diego - it's a neat little booklet. I learned a lot about San Diego County just from that. But I also wanted to show you what we have. This is our dummy copy. This is Hawaii County, and it's based on that. I'll let you look at it. And it's back, it says "Vote for Hawaii", "Aloha, Don't Leave Home Without It". No, no, it doesn't say that. We have here, how the sample ballot would look, and what the Table of Contents would be like. I'm waving this around. And this would be a picture of the candidate and what their little comments are, and we would not amend their comments, 13