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other districts will be voting only for five councilmen out <br /> of a 9 man council . Is this legal? <br /> MR. ODA: Can you break it down again? <br /> MR. OMONAKA: As I .understand Kalani ' s proposal , <br /> he is saying that the current five house district,,- have one <br /> district councilman and in that present house district, four <br /> house district, with a residency requirement from each of <br /> those four districts. So that numbers to a total of nine. <br /> But Hilo being a multiple district, if there is a residence <br /> requirement for the at-large council then the Hilo voters would <br /> be voting for .six councilmen and the other voters would be <br /> voting for only five councilmen. <br /> MR. ODA: Because Hilo has one more from the <br /> district. <br /> MR. OMONAKA: Because it is a multiple district, <br /> that is why they have two, see? <br /> MR. ODA: They would have one more. <br /> MR. OMONAKA: Is it legal to have the people <br /> from the 2nd district voting for six councilmen out of nine <br /> and the other district voters voting only for five councilmen <br /> on a nine man council? <br /> MR. ODA: I would say it would probably be legal <br /> because they are already voting for one more representative <br /> because of the population in the area in which they live. <br /> MR. OMONAKA: But what about the guys in the <br /> 1st district, as an example? They would be voting only for <br /> five councilmen. <br /> MR. ODA: Because in effect, theoretically, <br /> they would be represented by only five, :i.sn ' t that right? <br /> MR. OMONAKA: But they will be voting for five. <br /> MR. ODA: Right, but four at-large plus one <br /> district. <br /> MR. OMONAKA: But Hilo being a multiple district , <br /> they will have two councilmen. So when they vote two councilmen <br /> and and four at-large, they will be voting for six councilmen. <br /> MR. ODA: I understand that. Numerically, it <br /> would be a difference. I can ' t think of any specific reason <br /> why, outside of the fact that it is unequal , that it will be <br /> illegal. I haven ' t heard of any situation that would make it <br /> illegal. As I intellectualize about it a little bit, the <br /> mere fact that you have more candidates to vote for, I 'm trying <br /> an analogy in present. . . <br /> MR. OMONAKA: What about the one-man , one-vote <br /> concept? <br /> -8- <br />