2 GOP candidates win court ruling, will appear on ballot

2 GOP candidates win court ruling, will appear on ballot

SACRAMENTO — Two Republican candidates will appear on the June ballot — despite missing the deadline to file for office — after suing the secretary of state last month.

A judge ruled in favor of the candidates, one running for the state Assembly seat in a Sacramento suburb and one running for a South Bay congressional seat, requiring their names to appear on the ballot.

A third candidate seeking to run for another Sacramento Assembly seat was included in the lawsuit, but ultimately did not have enough valid signatures to be certified to appear on the ballot.

Lancaster and Tim Gorsulowsky, who is running against Assemblyman Jim Cooper, D-Elk Grove (Sacramento County), both turned in a form voters sign to allow a candidate to waive all or part of the filing fee that was due in February.

In March, when they turned in their paperwork, they would have had to turn in signatures from voters wishing to nominate a candidate for office as well as the filing fee.

Cooper said a voter who supports a candidate attempting to waive filing fees does not necessarily support that person running for a particular office.

Allowing a candidate to avoid having to turn in nomination signatures, such as the 40 required to run for the Assembly, makes it easier for that person to run for office.