Three Mission Viejo City Councilors must step down immediately, a California appeals court ruled Nov. 10.
The state appeals court dissolved a temporary stay issued by a lower appeals court after a county Superior Court judge found councilors Ed Sachs, Greg Raths, and Mayor Wendy Bucknam had overstayed their terms.
The councilors were elected to two-year terms in 2018 but stayed in office for four years while the city tried to make the switch from an at-large voting system to a cumulative voting system after the council was sued by a resident who claimed it violated California’s voting law by failing to change its election system….