Two candidates for Michigan governor, including a business consultant willing to spend personal millions, lost their final appeals Friday and will remain off the ballot in the Republican primary, the result of phony petition signatures that left them short of the 15,000 threshold.apparently created by paid circulators without the candidates’ knowledge.Detroit’s former police chief, James Craig, is in the same category.
Five candidates said they were victims of dishonest petition circulators and deserved to be on the ballot. They also complained that the state declared thousands of suspicious signatures invalid although only a portion were actually compared to signatures in the voter registry., on whether to put them on the ballot. A tie meant they were left off, and lawsuits followed.
Justice Richard Bernstein, the lone dissenter, said the state Supreme Court at least should have heard arguments. Johnson, who refers to himself as a business “quality guru,” began introducing himself to voters with Super Bowl ads and had pledged to spend some of his personal fortune.
WOMP WOMP.
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And just like that signature verification is important again.
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