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CHAIRMAN SAKATA: Maybe that 1983 should still <br /> hold then. <br /> MR. OMONAKA: Question on the motion. <br /> CHAIRMAN SAKATA: Does everyone understand the <br /> intent of the motion? To change subsection (g) of Section 3-3 <br /> . . .the words the commission may apportion five district <br /> council seats to the commission may apportion district council <br /> seats, deleting the word "five. " <br /> Ayes - Yanaga, Trulson, Noes - None <br /> Yagong, Omonaka, <br /> Sensano, Ishida, Absent - Cadinha <br /> Kobayashi , Iwamoto, - 1 <br /> Schutte, Sakata <br /> - 10 <br /> Carried. <br /> MR. ODA: Just for the record, Mr. Chairman , <br /> as I understand it, the State Legislative Reapportionment <br /> Commission also will reapportion in 1983 , as I recall. There <br /> are a couple of other concerns that I have which haven ' t been <br /> clarified. Someone from the audience pointed out. . .if we have <br /> three options, I want to be sure the intent on the record is <br /> clarified. . .if we have three options, is it the intent of the <br /> commission that the option with the plurality of votes shall win? <br /> In other words, if you have only 100 votes cast totally throughout <br /> the county and you have three options. . .one receives 33 , one <br /> receives 33, and the other receives 34. The one with 34 votes <br /> prevails as the charter provision? Is that correct? <br /> MR. SCHUTTE: That ' s correct. <br /> MR. TRULSON: Mr. Chairman. I would say that <br /> would be our intent. <br /> MR. OMONAKA: That ' s my intent also. <br /> MR. ISHIDA: Unless--Mr. Chairman, I have a <br /> question to counsel. My question is if that is accepted, is that <br /> valid? I really have a question in my mind whether we can do <br /> that. Can the fact of plurality, can we say the plurality will <br /> control? <br /> MR. ODA: I don ' t know of any law that says you <br /> have to have. . .I know there is a section in the election laws <br /> regarding candidates for office, but there is nothing regarding <br /> . . .candidates for office must have a majority of the votes but <br /> there is nothing in the law that I could find that has to do with <br /> any questions that are presented to the electorate and how they <br /> are to be considered to prevail or not prevail. The election <br /> laws are just void of the whole thing, so far as I know, anyway. <br /> We did check it out. So, I wanted to be sure there is something <br /> on the record, here, to reflect the intent of the commission <br /> should there be any question raised later on. I don ' t know, <br /> Mr. Ishida, as far as. . .I think they are valid. . . <br /> -19- <br />