Date: 	Mon, 8 Sep 1997 17:28:04 -1000
From: Mia H H Lam <mial@hawaii.edu>
Subject: LOCAL NEWS (fwd)

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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 17:03:15 -1000
From: Tom Ramsey <ramsey@math.hawaii.edu>
To: ramsey-list@math.hawaii.edu
Subject: LOCAL NEWS

	         FORMER SENATOR JACKIE YOUNG
	  JOINS THE TEAM "DEFENDING OUR CONSTITUTION"

	Former Senator Jackie Young has been hired by HRC
(Human Rights Campaign) as a political expert, for the purpose
of defending Hawaii's present constitution.  She will facilitate
a broad-based campaign to
        1)  Obtain a "no" on having a ConCon (constitutional
            convention); this ballot MAY take place Dec. 6 of
            this year
        2)  Obtain a "no" vote on the proposed constitutional
            amendment passed by the last Legislature, which would
            give the Legislature the power to limit marriage
            to heterosexual couples.  That vote will take place
            in November of 1998. 
Please give Jackie your fullest cooperation, and "mahalo nui loa"
to HRC for seeing that Hawaii's struggle has national implications.

	Now to the "nuts and bolts".  Suppose that the ConCon vote
takes place Dec. 6; usually, Nov. 6 is the deadline for voter
registration.   NOW IS THE TIME TO REGISTER TO VOTE, AND TO
RE-REGISTER IF YOU HAVE MOVED SINCE THE LAST ELECTION (even if
just within Oahu).  

        You may download a voter registration form to
be mailed in by contacting my personal WEB page:
        http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~ramsey
Click on the register to vote message, and you'll be transferred
to the state's computers for downloading the form (requires
also downloading the free Acrobat reader).

	You may get voter registration forms at public libraries,
and at some other government offices.

	NOW IS THE TIME TO REGISTER.  NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOUR
FRIENDS AND RELATIVES TO REGISTER.  The voter registration among
younger people, "liberals", professional people (e.g. University
professors), etc. IS DISMAL.  DON'T ASSUME THAT YOUR FRIENDS ARE
REGISTERED TO VOTE; they often are not.

	In a single issue ballot such as the ConCon vote (if we have
one!), only the organized and dedicated win.

	BTW, you can vote absentee!!!!!!!  You don't actually have
to find the polling place.  But that requires getting an application
and mailing it in on time.  More on this later.


					Best Regards,

					Tom Ramsey