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MR. CADINHA: May I have a little discussion, Mr. Chairman. I 'm not sure about this verbiage, I have to read this closely, but, as it reads now, you could end up with a 50-50. . .hypothetically, you could end up with a tie, couldn 't you? MR. OMONAKA: A tie vote is not recall. MR. CADINHA: No, it says here if less than 50% of the total number of persons. . . MR. SENSANO: 50% of the registered voters have to cast their ballots, then they take the majority of those who voted. MR. TRULSON: It says if less than 50%. MR. CADINHA: Then recall loses. MR. ODA: If you have 100 voters, and you have 49, for recall, then it is defeated. MR. CADINHA: If you have 50 for recall, it ' s recall. MR. ODA: it is recall. So long as it is 50. MR. ISHIDA: But it is the majority. MR. CADINHA: No, if there ' 100 votes cast, _ it' s 50. So it' s less than a majority, less than a ,clear�majority can. . . MR. SENSANO: What I understand here is if you have 100 voters altogether, registered. . .50' of them must cast their ballots, then of the 50 who cast their ballots they take the majority. MR. ISHIDA: That is how I interpret it. MR. ODA: You have to have at least 50%. . MR. ISHIDA: And of those votes cast", the majority controls, right? CHAIRMAN SAKATA: It has been moved and seconded that we adopt the-,recall proposal and to change the subsection (a) and (b) from 20% to 25% total number of persona_ who regi.s.tered in the last general election. Also on the next page, 50% of the persons who registered, not voted/registered. Does everyone understand the intent of the motion? Ayes - Cadinha, Kobayashi , Noes - None. Ishida, Sensano, Omonaka, Trulson, Absent - Yagong Yanaga, Iwamoto, -adia, Sakata 10 7c1— 5 c- k rrr Carried. -32-