Election office snafu with Harbor District candidate paperwork?

From a news tip, I have heard that Elections office screwed up. The Harbor District candidates are required to have 25 registered voters' signatures for each candidate so now the Harbor District candidates that have already filed need to re-submit paperwork 60 days before the election.

I called the Election office and spoke with Kelly Sanders. It is not the election office that "messed up". The signatures are to be submitted to the Harbor District. Were they aware of this criteria? Yes.

I spoke with Patricia Tyson, director of Administrative Services, at the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District. She sent me an email with the response she gave me on the phone. This is from the Harbors and Navigation Code Appendix 2, Section 14.

“Candidates for board of commissioners A candidate for election to the board of commissioners shall be a resident and qualified elector of the proposed district, and shall qualify for election by securing a nomination paper proposing his candidacy signed by no less than 25 qualified electors of the district who reside within the division within which the candidate resides.

At the first election for commissioners, all candidates shall file their nomination papers with the county clerk of the county, not more than 65 nor less than 50 days before the day of election, and all candidates for commissioners at any subsequent election shall file nomination papers with the board not more than 85 nor less than 60 days before the day of election."

September 11 is the deadline.