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CUSHNIE: But we would have to change our terminology, <br /> would we not? <br /> VAN DYKE: Well, if you went to a district system, you <br /> would then be faced with the challenge of reapportionment , how <br /> you draw the line. <br /> CUSHNIE: Uh-huh. <br /> VAN DYKE: And you would then have to draw them, I believe <br /> in the terms of the actual residents. . .number of residents <br /> rather than registered voters. <br /> JUVIK: Yeah, I 'd like to get to that issue just briefly <br /> on reapportionment. Obviously, it would be (inaudible) for us <br /> to go to some member districts . We would have to develop some <br /> reapportionment mechanism for periodic reapportionment in the <br /> district. And this is the question I wanted to ask. I assume <br /> they' re mechanisms that can be written into such a reapportion- <br /> ment provision, such as how reapportionment commission is <br /> chosen and whether it. . . constraints should be put on that <br /> commission vis-a-vis anti-gerrymandering conditions or what <br /> have you. I assume that there is a place we can go to find out <br /> that kind of information. <br /> VAN DYKE: Yes , it is an inherently political process . <br /> The way the Honolulu Charter reads, basically each city council <br /> member appoints one member to the reapportionment commission. <br /> And that one member is obviously looking out for the political <br /> needs . . . <br /> BETHEA: The gerrymanders (inaudible) . <br /> VAN DYKE: Right. And I was put on kind of by accident , I <br /> think, because one of the city council didn' t pay enough <br /> attention to his political needs , and they appointed me. But , <br /> it was a great learning experience for me to see all the other <br /> eight members were specifically. . .they knew precisely where the <br /> lines should be drawn for the advantages of their incumbent and <br /> I was very naive at the process . . . I mean, by the end , I <br /> understood it all. But at the beginning, I wasn' t sure exactly <br /> what was going on. But everybody else obviously understood the <br /> map completely. <br /> JUVIK: Is there. . . one of the problems I see on. . .as far <br /> as implementing the single-member districts here is the fact , <br /> if we were to do that , then the districts have to be based on <br /> population, and obviously the distribution of population is not <br /> coincident with the traditional districts of the island and , <br /> therefore, you end up with pretty new districts . . .well , not on <br /> one island, but you end up with obviously throwing together <br /> 109 <br />