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demmiblue

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Mon May 23, 2022, 08:20 PM May 2022

BREAKING: State elections bureau says Craig and Johnson did NOT file enough valid signatures. [View all]

BREAKING: State elections bureau says Craig and Johnson did NOT file enough valid signatures. It recommends that they NOT make the GOP gubernatorial primary ballot.







EDIT to add:

James Craig, Perry Johnson, 3 others shouldn't make ballot, Bureau of Elections says

Lansing — Former Detroit police Chief James Craig and businessman Perry Johnson, two of the top candidates for the Republican nomination for governor, didn't submit enough valid petition signatures to make the ballot, according to findings from the Michigan Bureau of Elections.

The bureau's revelations Monday evening shakes up the 2022 race to be Michigan's governor, potentially leaving Republicans without their most well-known candidate, Craig, and without their wealthiest hopeful, Johnson.

In a staff report, the bureau said it had tracked 36 petition circulators "who submitted fraudulent petition sheets consisting entirely of invalid signatures."

"In total, the bureau estimates that these circulators submitted at least 68,000 invalid signatures submitted across 10 sets of nominating petitions," the report said. "In several instances, the number of invalid signatures submitted by these circulators was the reason a candidate had an insufficient number of valid signatures."

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2022/05/23/james-craig-perry-johnson-shouldnt-make-ballot-michigan-gubernatorial-primary-state-bureau-elections/9895349002/
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