§ 16400 Election Contest Filing Requirements

• •A voter must file a written statement to contest an election.
• •The statement must be given to the clerk of the superior court that handles the area where the election happened.
• •The statement must include the voter’s name and voter status, the opponent’s name, the office being contested, the exact reasons and the code section being used, and the date the results were declared.

Jane lives in County X and believes the recent school board election was counted wrong. She goes to the clerk of the superior court and files a paper that says who she is, that she’s a voter in that county, who she’s challenging, which seat was at issue, why she thinks it’s wrong, and the date the results were announced.

Jane follows the steps the law requires: she writes a statement with all the listed information and gives it to the court clerk, making her contest official.