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IRVINE: I just think people - <br />YUEN: So I then need to ask if Sue wants to make the amendment so that <br />• you automatically take two into the General — you take the top two into the General, or <br />do you want to only pass two automatically into the General, if .there are only two <br />running? <br />IRVINE: <br />General? <br />What if there's only two running? Why don't they just go into the <br />YUEN: That's the way Maui does it. <br />HERKES: <br />vote on how? <br />They will. Mr. Ray, do we want to vote on non-partisan and then <br />SANTANGELO: That's what we're doing. No, you have to do it this way. <br />RAY: We have to amend it if we are, and then vote on the motion as <br />amended, if it is. <br />YUEN: Let me clarify this. I'm sorry. The way Maui does it is that if there <br />are only two running, you don't have an election at all in the Primary. They both run off <br />in the General and the winner wins in the General. If there are three or more running, <br />they do have an election in the Primary, but the top two go over into the General. <br />SANTANGELO: Regardless of one getting a majority? <br />YUEN: Regardless of one getting the 50% plus one. The way the City and <br />County does it is the way that was voted on by the Commission the first time through <br />which is that if you get the 50% plus one, no matter how many are running, if you get <br />that in the first, or Primary, election, you don't have a race in the second election. If <br />nobody gets 50% plus one, then the top two go over into the General Election. <br />RAY: So, does everybody understand the amendment? The amendment <br />is to vote, basically, as Chris just described, as Sue introduced the method that's in the <br />Maui County Charter. Okay, we're going to vote. <br />BESS: No, I'm unclear. Can you state what's in the Maui County Charter <br />again? What's on the table here. <br />YUEN: And let me just say one more thing. The way I read Maui, I think <br />their Mayor is still a partisan and their Council is non-partisan, just to throw different <br />wrinkle in there. But what I understand the motion to be, like we had done, we were <br />going to go all non-partisan. The amendment is that if there are only two candidates <br />running for a particular office, that those two candidates will not appear in the first <br />election and they will automatically go to the General, and then the winner wins in the <br />29 <br />