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and were never fixed; whereas in rural areas , they had these beautiful roads and so on because they were over-represented in the state legislature and under-represented. . .and that ' s the reason why I think why ultimately the one person, one vote system doesn' t make sense. So that ' s , I think, kind of an overview of the reapportionment issue. I went through. . . BETHEA: Yes , can we. . . VAN DYKE: Shall we stop and ask questions? L'ORANGE: I just want to ask a question so it ' s clear in my mind , one person, one vote, we' re talking about registered voter or eligible voter? VAN DYKE: Good question, and another one that ' s been litigated. In Hawaii , historically, there has been a use of the registered voter approach, and that was justified in part that we had a lot of military population that ought not to be considered, at least according to some people in terms of the make-up of our political community. In other parts of the country, the actual number of people has been the determining factor. And so, Hawaii . . .Hawaii ' s approach of allowing the registered voter list has come under some attack. And the most recent decisions have said that the. . . they should move toward an actual residency count under the registered-voter (inaudible) . BETHEA: Yes , Pam. CUSHNIE: I believe last January, 1988 , there was a House Bill 3164 that brought this to point , and I believe it was adopted. It does change the terminology, changing registered voters as the basis for reapportionment in state legislative districts and replaces it with the term population. Are we bound to them? VAN DYKE: I think that was the result of a court decision and so I would say, yes . CUSHNIE: I believe that is passed state-wide last year just recently. BETHEA: No, that wouldn' t impact us because of our at-large voting system. VAN DYKE: Right , if you stick with the at-large system, of course, you don' t have any reapportionment problems at all and that ' s one of the advantages. 108