Amended: Extension of Candidate Filing Period for the Statewide General Election

When incumbents do not file for re-election the filing period is extended.

SANTA ANA, CA - This amended press release provides updates to contests where there are extensions to the filing period. The Registrar of Voters announced today that the nomination period has been extended until August 15, 2018, 5:00 p.m. for the offices listed below because the incumbent failed to file Nomination Papers by the August 10, 2018 deadline.

Any qualified person, other than the incumbent, can now file the Nomination Papers until August 15, 2018, 5:00 p.m., in the office of the Registrar of Voters, 1300 South Grand Avenue, Building C, Santa Ana, California. 

Business hours are:
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

For further information, call the Registrar of Voters office at 714-567-7600, hit option "0" and ask for “Candidate and Voters Services” division.

CONTESTS THAT HAVE HAD THE CANDIDATE FILING EXTENDED:

  • Laguna Beach Unified School District
  • Newport-Mesa USD Trust Area 5
  • Newport-Mesa USD Trustee Area 7
  • Saddleback Valley Unified School District
  • Fullerton Joint Union HS District, Trustee Area 4
  • Buena Park School District, Trustee Area 1
  • Buena Park School District, Trustee Area 2
  • Buena Park School District, Trustee Area 5
  • Cypress School District, Trustee Area B
  • Huntington Beach City School District
  • Huntington Beach Union High School District
  • Anaheim Elementary School District, Trustee Area 4
  • La Habra City School District
  • Lowell Joint School District, Trustee Area 1, Short Term
  • Capistrano Bay Community Services District
  • Surfside Colony Community Services District
  • Three Arch Bay Community Services District
  • Silverado-Modjeska Recreation and Park District
  • Midway City Sanitary District
  • Surfside Colony Storm Water Protection District
  • Moulton Niguel Water District
  • East Orange County Water District
  • Buena Park Library District
  • Santiago Geologic Hazard Abatement District

 

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About the Registrar of Voters:
The Registrar of Voters is responsible for conducting elections in the County of Orange, the fifth largest voting jurisdiction in the United States with 1.8 million registered voters. We are a County agency, which receives funding from the County's General Fund and periodic reimbursement from the federal government, the State of California and local jurisdictions. Read more >>

Media Contacts:
Enedina Chhim
Community Outreach Manager 
714-567-5197
[email protected]

Source:
Orange County Registrar of Voters

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