Posted on 05/26/2022 4:38:00 PM PDT by Coronal
Five Republican candidates for governor in Michigan — including top-tier contenders James Craig and Perry Johnson — failed to qualify for the August primary Thursday, after the Board of State Canvassers rejected their nominating petitions due to alleged rampant signature fraud.
The bipartisan panel, composed of two Democrats and two Republicans, deadlocked 2-2 on party lines in accepting recommendations by the state elections bureau to disqualify each of the five. A majority was required to keep a candidate on the ballot.
State officials charged with reviewing the nominating petitions this week declared thousands of signatures submitted by the candidates to be forgeries submitted by fraudulent petition circulators. Their findings, which the board considered Thursday, left the five gubernatorial hopefuls short of the 15,000 valid signatures required to qualify for the ballot.
Thursday's result is expected to be challenged in court, but the state's director of elections said the issue needs to be decided by June 3 to leave time for the preparation of ballots.
The developments could trigger a colossal shakeup in Michigan's race for governor, which Republicans are heavily targeting in hopes of unseating Democratic incumbent Gretchen Whitmer. If the board's decision stands, an initial field of 10 GOP candidates would be cut in half and without two of its most viable candidates: Craig, a former Detroit police chief who has led in recent polls, and Johnson, a businessman who promotes himself as a "quality guru" and planned to self-fund his campaign.
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AAAARGH! Wrong link.
The Democrat dictatorship in Michigan is in high gear...
How many GOP candidates are running and was the Trump endorsed candidate in the five?
but signatures on mail in ballots can’t be questioned? wtf
Dammit! Those fake signatures were supposed to be put on Democrat nominating petitions. Mistakes like this are what happen when you let illiterate people vote.
"State officials". I can just imagine who these people are... and who has their allegiance.
Everybody’s looking at the aftermath of a horrorshow unfolding in Texas and the ************s are stealing another election in Michigan.
But snark aside, I wonder if those ‘fake signatures’ were done intentionally by democrats, trying to torpedo republican candidates as early as possible.
Democrats: “It’s okay when we do it.”
See, they know how to fight and they fight dirty. And there’s McConnell bending over for Schumer to ban our guns! I hate that piece of 💩!!
The cheat is on.
Yep the rats made damn sure Detroit Police chief Craig was booted. He would have beat the rat Governor and they knew it. The rat SOS disqualified the entire petition if even one signature was dodgy and they over every one of Craig’s with a microscope. In fact, I’ll bet they hard decoys put bad signatures on the petitions to poison them.
Reason #762,483 for being known as the stupid party.
Running five candidates, FIVE...what could possibly go wrong?
MI is always such a disappointment.
They didn't try to authenticate all the signatures. If one fake was found, they'd throw out the whole page. (according to the report I heard on the news...)
This is almost certainly Democrap sabotage, and it's as much of a disenfranchisement as not counting my vote.
The fix is in.
lol, Michigan Democrats pretending to care about voter integrity. Go back to taping up windows in downtown Detroit on Election Day.
Frauds.
Problem is the GOP will bend over and take it- as they usually do.
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