“It would be patently unfair, and likely a violation of their fundamental right to hold public office, to disqualify these candidates,” the Oakland city clerk said Friday.
The two candidates vying for an open Oakland school board seat will be allowed to run in November, despite a critical error by the city clerk’s office that led both candidates to fall short of gathering enough signatures in the right places to be eligible.
Amid changing boundaries, the city wasn’t clear about where the candidates needed to collect nomination signatures for District 5, a largely Latino area south of I-580 that spans parts of East Oakland, including Fremont High School and the Fruitvale neighborhood.last year, and the city’s election officials intended to use the new ones for November’s special election.
Oakland City Councilmember, District 6, Nikki Fortunato Bas, right, is sworn in by Oakland City Clerk Asha Reed during the inauguration ceremony at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. The old boundaries incorporate part of the Trestle Glen neighborhood north of I-580 and does not stretch far enough east to include Horace Mann Elementary.
It remains unclear whether the city, by not extending the filing deadline, might be excluding candidates who otherwise might have been eligible to run for the open District 5 seat this November.
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