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configuration and leads to some significant distortion in that Molokai has kind of a fixed seat. And the other way it can be distorting is that the person elected from a district may not be, in fact , the choice of the people in that district. In the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, we had a situation recently where the person from the Maui district lost on Maui but won dramatically on Oahu because he had ohana there and, thus , was elected as the Maui representative. And this is the kind of awkwardness this system can lead to, and so you may want to review the appropriateness of this system as you go through your deliberations. There are a number of policy arguments , both in favor and against the at-large system. The at-large system tends to raise campaign expenses if you've got to campaign over the whole island, then you obviously have to spend more and spend more time campaigning. Your link to the individual constituents are less , inevitably. And as I said before, the districts in fact may not be properly represented in the sense that they may prefer somebody else as opposed to the person who is actually elected at-large. The advantages of at-large elections is that you do have a. . . everybody is kind of committed to the whole island and, in that sense, you have people making decisions for the well-being of the entire island. And so, in some communities , there is the mix, and this is something you might consider some at-large and some district elections. This was proposed actively on Oahu during the last Charter revision and you have that mix, in fact it wasn' t adopted, but it has something to do with the (inaudible) . BETHEA: If you did that , you would be. . .people voting from a particular district would have to be on a one man, one vote basis , wouldn' t they? VAN DYKE: Well , you could, yes. Yes . If you went district-wide, you'd have to divide up the island in terms of one person, one vote and of course that would mean that the population centers , Hilo and Kona area, would have proportionately more than the less populated areas. But the, you know. . . the advantage is that those people can then fight for the infrastructure that they need and get a share of the pie that the people in that area actually need as in relation to population size. I remember growing up. . . I grew up in Virginia and. . .aboard the one person, one vote system and lived in urban areas in Washington, D. C. , and our roads were always full of potholes 107