{"data":{"id":"us-ca/elec-8405","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"ELEC § 8405","heading":"","body":"Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, if an independent candidate submits an in-lieu-filing-fee petition pursuant to Section 8106, the county elections official, upon the request of the candidate, shall accept all valid signatures appearing on the candidate’s in-lieu-filing-fee petition toward the number of signatures required to be submitted on an in-lieu-filing-fee petition and on a nomination paper.\nIf the in-lieu-filing-fee petition does not contain the requisite number of signatures required under Section 8400, the candidate shall be entitled to file, within the time period allowed for filing nomination papers, a nomination paper in order to obtain the requisite number of valid signatures required to be submitted to the elections official pursuant to this chapter.","path":["Elections Code - ELEC","DIVISION 8. NOMINATIONS [8000. - 8903.]","PART 2. INDEPENDENT NOMINATIONS [8300. - 8550.]","CHAPTER 3. Nomination Papers [8400. - 8409.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"78dc0d24bca30396046f6ccdfbfb29ca9d5f0e6814017732b03d37aeb759e781","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/elec-8404","next":"us-ca/elec-8406"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}