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It is a little early, but actually this is the right time to start to consider your ballot design. I would like to first go over some of the pros, the plus side of using a punch _ .card ballot system. It is the State system. The voters are all familiar with the punch device, the ballot format, etc. It is accurate. It is reliable and you get timely results. It is tried and tested. As far as the cons or the minus side, as you can seethe ballots are of a certain physical size so you are very limited to the space: in terms of the wording in the amendment. You would have to be explicit as well as concise. You could have your supporting text in a separate brochure or supplement, you know, newspaper or other publication. Also, you are limited to the number of amendments that you may have. Let's say, if you have 50 amendments to your charter, obviously, you may have 10 or more cards involved and that would be very unwieldy. So, again, if you have too many amendments and if you do consider a paper ballot with the paper ballot you still have a problem of the counting, or tallying, the votes per amendment. As your paper ballot gets a lot more amendments on it you start to have human errors in the procedure where they are counting your votes. I know you have just a little time to digest what I have brought to you. I will be happy to answer any question and I will also be very happy to support the Clerk 's office to give you any kind of statistics or cost. figures or any other kind of information you may require. MR. ODA: Mr. Chairman, may I? Mr. Tamashiro, I notice that on your samples, here, of the various county charter ballots, there is no literal. . .the literal change of the charter provision is not on the ballot, itself. It is just a question with an explanatory provision. I assume that the literal change to the charter is going to be in a handout that is given to the voter. MR. TAMASHIRO: That 's , right. I didn ' t bring copies of all the brochures and the various types of publica- tions that other counties utilize but I will be happy to forward some to you. I brought some samples, if I may pass them among the members and if you do feel that I should forward all such material to you, I will be happy to do that. MR. ODA: We would appreciate some samples of that. Now, Mr. Tamashiro, if I can ask you a couple more questions. So, basically, in addition to the ballots themselves you automatically have to have a digest, or a full `_ text, as you say, to accompany the ballot, right? MR. TAMASHIRO: That ' s right. MR. ODA: Who does the actual wording of the items. . .the wording on the ballot, itself? MR. TAMASHIRO: I would assume that you would or have the County Clerk ' s office do it for the county. We would be happy to assist them in wording, etc. But, I would think for the commission that you would want to have one of your people, or a subcommittee,. -12-