Capo for Better Representation v. Kelley

Opinion

SILLS, P. J.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case presents an instructive contrast to another election petition case that we publish today, Preserve Shorecliff Homeowners v. City of San Clemente (2008) 158 Cal.App.4th 1427. In Preserve Shoreclijf, there is substantial evidence of reliance by petition circulators on the acceptance by local elections officials of the practice of having petition signers also sign a circulator’s affidavit when the circulators do not live in the city involved in the petition. And that evidence was accepted by the trial court. Moreover, in Preserve Shoreclijf the…