An Orange County Superior Court judge denied resident Mark Bixby's application for a writ of mandate or a temporary injunction to keep the voter ID measure off the March ballot in Huntington Beach.
Pat Burns, Tony Strickland, Gracey Van Der Mark and Casey McKeon are poised to form a new conservative majority on the dais starting next month, based on voting results so far released.
Polls closed officially across the state at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Preliminary results were released shortly thereafter, but the true results may not be available for days.