A Palm Beach County Circuit Court judge has ruled that office-seekers in Riviera Beach should not have paid their filing fee with a debit card.

Five candidates named in the suit and one who filed the suit face removal; includes all three candidates for mayor.

Attorney Dedrick Straughn filed a lawsuit, claiming that the candidates used debit cards to pay their filing fees and that is against the law. The incumbent Mayor Ronnie Felder is one of the plaintiffs,

How does a city elect a mayor when all of the candidates have been disqualified? That's a question Riviera Beach has to answer right now after a Palm Beach County judge ruled that all the mayoral candidates and 3 candidates for city council cannot appear on the March ballot.