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• <br />SANTANGELO: Again, I appreciate that, Sue, but what you go back to is if you've <br />elected someone to represent you, they have the right to vote yes or no, so you can't <br />say you've broken the law because you voted no. You See, it's a dilemma, and that's <br />what this was going to address but I think it's very complicated and maybe we'll just let <br />them deal with it. <br />RAY: Mr. Bess. <br />BESS: I would speak in favor of this provision. However, in the interest of <br />presenting a ballot to the public that is small enough and has issues that are of true <br />importance — I mean this is an issue that may or may not arise, and given the number <br />of amendments that we are proposing to the public, I am voting to delete. <br />RAY: All in favor of deleting, raise your right hand. <br />HANDS RAISED: All Commissioners. <br />RAY: We're recording all of this, Jason, if you want to check the record <br />afterwards. <br />Any other proposals for deletions before we go through? <br />SANTANGELO: Mr. Chairman, just one little3 statement for clarification. In deleting <br />these — we've deleted quite a few things here, and I think it's good for the record to <br />show that a lot of this came up because people brought it forward and we wanted to <br />give it a fair and open hearing. And this may well be the result of that fair and open <br />hearing. So anyway, that's my explanation for going against some of these things. <br />RAY: Thank you. I think I've stated on numerous occasions that nobody <br />really engages the process until they have something concrete in front of them. But we <br />erred in that direction to put it out there even though we knew there'd be a number of <br />changes. <br />First off, non-partisan elections — And so we're voting on the proposed amendments <br />as we have previously voted on and established language around. So I'd like to <br />entertain a motion, and then if someone would like to propose an amendment, we'll <br />take that. So, can I have a motion to approve the non-partisan elections? <br />HERKES: So moved. <br />RAY: Second? <br />YOSHIYAMA: Second. <br />IRVINE: Discussion. It came to my attention, after reading through this I <br />didn't realize when we put this in that we were following, I think, City and County <br />26 <br />