This looks like sabotage from his own base. If a guy needs 2000 signatures, and 1000 are tossed outoo, that means either his campaign was not doing its job (laziness, fraud) or somebody was deliberately submitting bogus signatures.
You know brilliant minds think alike :-). I posted, then went for a coffee and thought about it, and that concept entered my brain. Maybe even outside forces, SEIU? Unions of other stripes getting their hands on the papers? or just a clerical snafu in Lansing that can be addressed? We will find out Tuesday....