Aloha Ken: I can understand where Ron is coming from regarding voting in an OHA election when we, ourselves, do not possess Hawaiian blood in our veins. For me, I was born and raised in Hawaii, but I have never looked at that as the best and only justification for voting in the OHA ballot. In fact, my initial feel is to not vote, even with these qualifications stated above, because of the deference I feel toward those of Hawaiian ancestry and really yielding to them the ability to have decisions come out of that community exclusively. 

However, I will agree with what Kelii says here in that The future of the Hawaiian people is inextricably bound up with the futures of all people in these islands we call home. Until this conundrum is resolved by entities, like OHA, I think those voters who are non-Hawaiian will still act according to their level of deference to the Hawaiian community, which as a person born and raised her, I do.