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MR. ODA: One-man, one-vote as a phrase, I <br /> think , is misleading because it doesn ' t necessarily mean <br /> every person ' s vote has to Weigh ': the same amount as every <br /> other person. So long as there is no substantial watering <br /> of the voting rights of anybody else., You,,know, watering <br /> down , so to speak , or depreciation. I just can ' t think of <br /> anything that would make it illegal . <br /> MR. OMONAKA: So then you are saying that this <br /> proposal can meet all legal requirements. <br /> MR. ODA: Probably so. Irrespective of the <br /> fact that it doesn ' t mean come down to literallY ,a one-man , <br /> one-vote kind of thing. When you look at it.'from` the, stand- <br /> point of the base on which you are using, which is a house <br /> representative district,:' right now. . .I 'm sure you all realize <br /> that the population in the various four districts are unequal . <br /> Even when we started talking about it , it was unequal so there <br /> will be inquality built into it, unfortunately. But that, in <br /> and of itself, unless it is of such major importance that you ' re <br /> completely depriving a large segment of the population from <br /> participating in the_electoral process, I don ' t think it would <br /> be held illegal . It can be challenged. Anything can be <br /> challenged at any time. <br /> MR. TRULSON: He would still be voting for a <br /> majority. <br /> MR. ODA: Yes. <br /> MR. OMONAKA: How can the guy from the 1st <br /> district vote only for 5 councilmen? Whereas the guy from the <br /> 2nd district be allowed to vote for six? For a nine man <br /> council? <br /> MR. SCHUTTE : If we are looking at it from that <br /> standpoint. . . <br /> MR. ODA: Because he is being represented by <br /> six people. That is the only logical reason I can answer. <br /> I 'm sorry, Mr. Schutte. . . <br /> MR. SCHUTTE : In answer to Akira' s question of <br /> how can people vote from a district, say for instance; like he <br /> said one for just five candidates, and those from district 2 <br /> vote for six, well I think the concehsus is the same if you <br /> keep it just at a five councilman out of four districts. <br /> There is an inequality, as you mentioned , if you take the <br /> districts--the representative districts, I am referring to. <br /> So you still have Hilo because of the numbers, you still have <br /> two more councilmen. . . <br /> MR. ODA: I think the point we made, Mr. Omonaka, <br /> is that if you have only five councilmen , representing the four <br /> districts, two from Hilo, and only those people from the <br /> districts can vote for the five councilmen then the people from <br /> Hilo voting for two and the people from the 1st, 3rd, and 4th <br /> are voting for only one. So, from the inception already, from <br /> the beginning, there is a built-in inequality because of the <br /> number of candidates representing district 2. <br /> -9- <br />