Bradley v. Perrodin

Opinion

ORTEGA, J.

The hotly contested 2001 Compton municipal election resulted in two election contests challenging the results of the runoff election in the mayoral and city council races. The trial court granted both election contests, removing the winners from office and replacing them with their opponents. Finding the runoff ballot had listed the candidates’ names in both races in the wrong alphabetical order, the trial court concluded that switching the name order would have changed the outcome of both races due to the advantage the top ballot placement affords over lower ballot…