Elections Code – ELEC § 8061

 If a candidate submits an in-lieu-filing-fee petition pursuant to Section 8106 , any or all signatures appearing on the petition, which would be valid under Section 8041 , shall be counted towards the number of voters required to sign a nomination paper.  If an in-lieu-filing-fee petition contains a requisite number of valid signatures under Section 8062 , the candidate shall not be required to file nomination papers, but may request the elections official to accept the petition instead of filing nomination papers.

If an in-lieu-filing-fee petition does not contain the requisite number of valid signatures as set forth in Section 8062 , 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 on a nomination paper.  A candidate who submits a nomination paper pursuant to this paragraph shall only be required to obtain the number of signatures thereon needed to supplement the in-lieu-filing-fee petition so that the combination of signatures appearing on the in-lieu-filing-fee petition and the nomination paper equals or exceeds the requisite number of signatures set forth in Section 8062 .