SECTIONS 8800-8811 - California Statutes

ELECTIONS CODE

SECTION 8800-8811

8800. No candidate whose declaration of candidacy has been filed
for any primary election may withdraw as a candidate at that primary
election.

8801. No candidate nominated at any primary election may withdraw
as a candidate at the ensuing general election except those
candidates permitted to withdraw by this part.

8803. No vacancy on the ballot for a general election shall be
filled except if the candidate dies and that fact has been
ascertained by the officer charged with the duty of printing the
ballots at least 68 days before the date of the next ensuing general
election.

8804. Notwithstanding Sections 8803 and 8810, any candidate who has
been nominated at any primary election for superior court judge in
which election there were at least two other candidates and who,
after the date prescribed for the filing of declaration of candidacy
pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 8020) of Chapter 1 of
Part 1, has been appointed to any federal or state office, may
request the county elections official to have his or her name removed
from the ballot of the next ensuing general election. If the request
is received by the county elections official at least 68 days before
the next ensuing general election, the county elections official
shall remove the candidate's name from the ballot.
If a candidate's name is removed from the ballot pursuant to this
section, the two remaining candidates who received the highest number
of votes cast on all the ballots of all the voters participating in
the primary election for nomination for that office of superior court
judge shall be the candidates for that office at the ensuing general
election, and their names as candidates for that office shall be
placed on the official ballot at the ensuing election.

8805. Whenever a candidate for nomination for a nonpartisan or
voter-nominated office at a primary election dies on or before the
day of the election, and a sufficient number of ballots are marked as
being voted for him or her to entitle him or her to nomination if he
or she had lived until after the election, a vacancy exists on the
general election ballot, which shall be filled in the manner provided
in Section 8807 for filling a vacancy caused by the death of a
candidate.

8807. If the vacancy occurs among candidates chosen at the direct
primary to go on the ballot for the succeeding general election for a
nonpartisan or voter-nominated office, the name of that candidate
receiving at the primary election the next highest number of votes
shall go upon the ballot to fill the vacancy.

8808. A vacancy authorized to be filled because of the death of a
candidate shall be filled, and the name of the person named to fill
the vacancy shall be certified to the officer charged with the duty
of printing the ballots, 68 days before the day of election.

8809. Whenever a candidate has declared a candidacy for a primary
election, the candidate's name shall be printed upon the ballot for
the primary election, unless the candidate has died, and that fact
has been ascertained by the officer charged with the duty of printing
the ballots, at least 68 days before the day of the election.

8810. Whenever a candidate has been nominated at any primary
election after having filed a declaration of candidacy, the name of
the candidate shall be printed upon the ballot for the ensuing
general election unless the candidate has died and that fact has been
ascertained by the officer charged with the duty of printing the
ballots, at least 68 days before the day of election.

8811. Whenever, upon the death of any candidate, the vacancy
created is filled by a party committee, a certificate to that effect
shall be filed with the officer with whom a declaration of candidacy
for that office may be filed, and, upon payment of the filing fee
applicable to the office, shall be accepted and acted upon by that
officer as in the case of an original declaration certificate.