Posted on 05/27/2022 2:26:50 AM PDT by Libloather
LANSING, MI – Nineteen candidates from around the state have been booted from the Aug. 3 ballot over petition errors. Those errors ranged from some candidates having thousands of fraudulent signatures on their petitions, to one candidate accidentally covering a few words on her petition with a sticker.
The Michigan Board of State Canvassers on Thursday decided on a total of 32 cases where candidates for this year’s primary election were facing disqualification from the ballot.
The list included six candidates for Michigan governor, seven candidates for U.S. representative and 19 candidates for circuit and district court judges.
Of those 32, only 13 candidates qualified for the ballot after the board of canvassers found their petitions to be sufficient during its Thursday, May 26, meeting. The other 19 candidates were disqualified, and will have to file an appeal in court before June 3 if they want to get back on the ballot.
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Vice Chair Mary Ellen Gurewitz, one of two Democrats on the four-member board, upheld that it is a candidate’s responsibility to ensure the petitions they hand in are valid and correct.
“Some of the candidates admitted that the signatures are fraudulent and complained themselves that they were defrauded, that they were victims, which is hard to stomach, quite frankly,” Gurewitz said. “It’s their obligation to check these signatures.”
Thirty-six petition circulators could face criminal charges, as the Michigan Department of State has referred the issue to Attorney General Dana Nessel for investigation.
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Uh huh
So signature matches cannot be done in a presidential election but they are absolutely vital to see who gets on a gubernatorial primary.
Obviously this is going to court.
So, how many of the disqualified candidates are actually Dumb-O-Crats?
How did the Board know signatures were forgeries? Enough to ruin the petition?
Did Democrats have a forgery hit team signing forged signatires and sending th enfo to the Board back channel?
Did thousands of People sign names like “Elvis Presley,” or “Joe Namath” etc?
I smell a deep state skunk, the smell is getting frequent, the whiff of rotting fecal liberal fascism.
Craig, who was running for Gov had hired a GOP Texas firm that was always used by GOP. That company hired it out to a another firm in Michigan. It is rumored that Dem operatives offered to pay the folks gathering signatures more money then the GOP company. Also planted a Dem aide.
(5) GOP Governors kicked out of race for fraudulent signatures.
Not just Democrats. Swamper Establishment-types too.
US Government is the biggest criminal syndicate on planet Earth.
Yes they had a hit signature petition team. Mark Brewer, former DNC chair filed a lawsuit against Craig (R) running for Governor and was the one who would win against Whitmer. See now Whitmer and Dems can use this excuse against Republicans saying see, they tried to commit election fraud blah blah. It was a total set up and once again GOP doesn’t do due diligence in elections.
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