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HERKES: In the first election. <br />YUEN: In the first election, or the Primary, if you got 50% plus one, you're <br />• elected outright, and you don't count blank or spoiled ballots. So, the way it was voted <br />on the first time, if there are only two people running, unless they tie, guarantee <br />somebody's going to be elected outright at the first election. The way Maui does it is if <br />there are only two people running for the office, they skip the first election and they run <br />them off in the General, and I thought that was what the motion was because that's the <br />way Maui works. But in Maui, and in the way that we had discussed earlier, if there are <br />three or more running, and somebody gets 50% plus one out of those three, then <br />they're elected outright in the first election and you don't go on. <br />HERKES: And that takes them out of the second election, however. It takes <br />both people out of the second election. <br />YUEN: That does take it out of the second. <br />HERKES: Well, it takes all three, but you're not even taking two into the <br />second election, the top two. <br />YUEN: . Right. You can do it, that you always take the top two into the <br />second election. That's not been what has been discussed. <br />HERKES: Nobody does that now. <br />• YUEN: Right. Let me look at Maui's again to make absolutely sure, but I'm <br />pretty sure that that's not the way they do it in Maui. <br />HERKES: Sue's point was a good point, that more people vote in the General <br />Election. You have less candidates running in the General Election. <br />IRVINE: The bottom paragraph talks about ties in the Primary. <br />SANTANGELO: But we could go back to what we just deleted too. That's that <br />situation when you have three or more running, very seldom would you have someone <br />get a majority vote. <br />IRVINE: Yes. <br />HERKES: Well, getting 50%, yes. <br />YUEN: Maui is as I discussed it, and if you — No, I'm sorry. Sue is correct. <br />If there are three or more, they automatically take two into the General. So, if we want <br />to call that, there's three different ways of doing it. <br />SANTANGELO: Adding expense. <br />28 <br />