Alameda County judge orders new candidate be added to Fremont ballot

FREMONT — A candidate for a council seat here will appear on the November ballot after successfully challenging the city in court.

Sterling Engle, a lifelong Warm Springs resident, said the city clerk withheld his name from the Nov. 5 ballot, claiming he missed an Aug. 9 deadline when filing his campaign paperwork on Aug. 14. So he went to court, acting as his own lawyer to argue the city did not legally notify the public about the proper filing deadline.

Alameda County Judge Michael Markman agreed, ruling on Aug. 29 that Engle should be the third candidate on the ballot for the District 5 council race.

The city posted a notice extending the filing deadline to Aug. 14 but later said the notice was posted in error and that Engle had not filed in time. Markman wrote that Engle was following the rules by filing by the extension mistakenly set by the city and ordered his name added to the ballot.



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