Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 11, Number 12, 1 Nowemapa 1994 — Voting in the OHA election: [ARTICLE]

Voting in the OHA election:

In the November 8 OHA election, the 7 1 ,096 registered OHA voters will choose among 45 candidates running for 5 seats. [In the 1992 OHA eleeūon. 74.9 percent of the 68,122 registered OHA voters cast their ballots for 19 candidates for 4 board seats.] Incumbents seeking re-elecūon this year include OHA Ohaimian and O'ahu Trustee Clayton Hee, Vice-Chairman and Maui Trustee Abe Aiona, Tmstee at-large : Rowena Akana and Trustee at-large Frenchy DeSoto. Because he was a candidate for the Senate. Trustee Kamaki Kanahele is not seeking re-election to OHA. IAs a service to its voting beneficiaries and candidates, Ka Wai Ola O OHA presents, starting on page 3, candidate statements of Hawaiians vying for 5 seats on the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees. There are 31 candidates for 3 at-large seats (no residency requirement), 6 candidates for one Maui seat. and 8 candidates for one O'ahu seat (these trustees must be residents of their island). Elected trustees will serve a four-year term to 1998. At-large candidate statements are presented first, then followed by the Maui residency candidates, then the O'ahu residency candidates Replies were not received from the following candidates: Kamakakaulani Kahikina, Kalani Kapu, Carlos Mahi Manuel, Joe Tassill, Reggie Kauikeaokalani Hao, Leona Mapuana (Ng) Kalima and Pumehala Charmaine Mahiai. Trustees currently serving terms that end in 1996 are not up for election this year. They include: Moanike'ala Akaka (Hawai'i island), Samuel Kealoha (Moloka'i and Lāna'i). Moses Keale (Kaua'i and Ni'ihau) and Kina'u Boyd Kamali'i (At-large). i , .

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