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While we were at recess we had some discussion on <br /> this. Can we dtermine what option will be the winner of <br /> four choices? <br /> CHAIRMAN SCHUTTE: This motion is up for discussion. <br /> At the present we are specifically speaking on Section 3-2 <br /> and the ballot. <br /> Akira, will you go over the whole thing for the <br /> record? <br /> (Mr. Omonaka made the following chalkboard example. ) <br /> MR. OMONAKA: This is just as example. If we had <br /> ten voters voting on that Section 3-2 where we have four <br /> propositions , four options. Four will vote for no change. <br /> Six will vote for change. And of the six voting for a change, <br /> two will vote for 5-2, one will vote for 9 , and three will <br /> vote for a 5=4 council makeup. At the last meeting we agreed <br /> that a plurality of the votes cast would be the winner. So, <br /> what I wanted to ask is it our commissioners ' understanding <br /> that this becomes the winner? Or that six being the majority <br /> of asking for a change, this becomes the winner and the <br /> highest of that yes votes in this case, three. . .becomes 'the <br /> winner? <br /> MR. TRULSON : That ' s the way I look at it. <br /> MR. ISHIDA: Mr. Chairman. I don ' t know, I don''t <br /> think we had the. . .it was my understanding last time that <br /> possibly we would not have the plurality problem because we <br /> would have two options at that time. After assuming that the <br /> present system is defeated by a majority vote, I envision the <br /> problem that we are faced with assuming that = n_th'e first <br /> question the present system is defeated, how do you determine <br /> which of the remaining options should be considered? - <br /> One of the alternatives , as Akira pointed out, do <br /> you go back and reconsider how many votes the present system <br /> got? I would think we cannot because that already should have <br /> been defeated by a majority. However, if we go on the basis <br /> of the plurality based upon six votes cast in the remaining <br /> three, I find it very difficult to accept , no matter which <br /> option gets the highest votes , that it would govern. <br /> It seems that whether it ' s legal or not, what if <br /> we require all voters to vote on the option , regardless of <br /> whether they vote yes or no? I don ' t know whether this is <br /> going to make the ballot valid. My thinking is—this, if -the <br /> present system is defeated then what we 're doing is we're <br /> offering to all the voters the three options. In that fashion <br /> maybe a plurality can then be considered valid. But whether <br /> that can be considered valid, I don ' t know. <br /> CHAIRMAN SCHUTTE: Stuart, is this something new <br /> that you ' re proposing? <br /> -32- <br />