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• way to go, but we want to keep it in the State. RAY: Okay, and I'm sure we have some other questions. George. MARTIN: Thanks, and appreciate you folks coming and participating in our format. I guess it's your format too because the dates coincide, yeah? Specific questions on your neighborhood board proposal. Would that be advisory, or what type of format would that be, or would you expect to see, if it were to be taken up? ISBELL: Well, we had different discussions on this and there is a question on whether it should be advisory or should have some authority to make decisions. The Planning Commission, as you know, has some authority even though some of us question whether that's correct or not, but I think one of the things that there was a great concern about is that it be funded so that they are elected, like Oahu. That it is just not a volunteer appointed thing, but they have to run for it, and that way you get a lot more interest and participation, I believe. And what I've found on Oahu is even when you have a very important meeting in the Legislature, if there's a neighborhood board meeting, they go to that first, and they come to things later because that's how much they hold it in esteem. Just so you know. MARTIN: Number 3, you made mention about a Vote -by -mail. I've been in support of that for quite some time. I think it's a great idea. I think it's something that we could work with. You made mention of safeguards. What do you see necessary to make something like that work? ISBELL: A lot of high technology. You have to have a machine that can scan a signature and determine whether it's a fraud or not, because the signature's on the outside of the envelope, so that you don't know what the vote is on the inside, but the outside has to have the signature of the person who does it. We have a wonderful video, by the way, we'd be happy to share with you. Have you seen the videos on Vote -by -mail? How it works? RAY: I haven't. I don't think we have. ISBELL: It was an eye opener for me because I didn't know what it really meant, but it means that everybody votes by mail. You don't have polling places, and you just have to make darn sure that the person who is able to vote is the one that's voting. But I'd be happy to get that for you. RAY: We'd appreciate it. MARTIN: Perhaps we're probably going to need it down the road sometime. With the single member district changes that, not so much have been proposed, but discussed, and not so much in-depth until this morning - with the change from nine 15