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to remove an elective official. It is another way of doing it. <br /> In other words, if you have initiative, you also have refer- <br /> endum kind of thing. It is not necessarily the same thing <br /> but the result will be the same thing. That is what you are <br /> trying accomplish.to accom lish. To <br /> remove an elected official. <br /> MR. SCHUTTE: Stuart, in your impeachment, you <br /> say the court does it. In_ recall, who carries the axe? <br /> MR. ODA: Well, there would have to be a <br /> vigilante committee, if I can use that word. A group of <br /> people. . . <br /> MR. SCHUTTE: What you are saying then is that <br /> any group that can muster up, as you have it, 20% of the <br /> total number of persons who voted. . . <br /> MR. ODA: Or registered in the last district <br /> election, if it is a district councilman. Totally on the <br /> island, if it was a prosecutor, mayor, or at-large councilman. <br /> MR. SCHUTTE: That committee would have to get <br /> this started, but who enforces it? <br /> MR. ODA: It will be through the county clerk ' s <br /> office. They would have to check the validity and the <br /> accuracy of the signatures and whether they are, in fact, <br /> voters or registered, who were registered and actually voted. <br /> They would have to check that out. They would have a certain <br /> number of days in which to do that kind of thing and mandate <br /> i t. <br /> MR. SCHUTTE : Then would you have to change <br /> subsection (a) because you have it almost specific here. . . <br /> recall of an official elected at-large„by voters of the entire <br /> county. We are looking at districts. . <br /> MR. ODA: Yes, I have subsection (b) over there <br /> for that purpose. <br /> MR. SCHUTTE: I see. Okay. <br /> MR. TRULSON: I feel with raising the percentage <br /> to 25% of the total number of persons who voted that, along <br /> with the last section on page 1 , I think it would be a <br /> deterrent to harrassment. It is not going to be an easy thing <br /> that someone can do on a whim. You must have 25% of the <br /> people who voted and 50% of the people who voted must vote <br /> in the recall election, as I read this. Is that interpretation <br /> correct, Stuart? <br /> MR. ODA: I think so, yes. <br /> MR. SCHUTTE : Mr. Trulson, what you are saying <br /> then is to increase the percentage to 25% and omit the <br /> registered voters and just have voters? <br /> -29- <br />