Democrats Work To Invalidate Republican Nominating Petitions in Michigan

“Democrats worried about minute petition discrepancies.

Quite a departure from all the 2020 ballot mischief…” (commenter)

Democrats can’t win clean so they cheat.

Signature Problems May Invalidate Nominating Petitions in Michigan

By Steven Kovac, The Epoch Times, May 6, 2022

A ring of paid, out-of-state, petition circulators has helped throw Michigan’s 2022 primary nominating process into disarray.

Thousands of defective signatures on nominating petitions collected by a group of circulators hired by several campaigns may result in the disqualification of two Republican candidates for governor.

An error involving a petition heading may remove another GOP candidate for governor from the 10-candidate field.

It is legal and common practice for candidates and ballot proposal advocates to hire professional circulators to help their campaigns get the requisite number of valid signatures to appear on the ballot.

The tactics of the alleged scammers, slipshod petition crafting, and sloppy signature gathering on the part of several candidates of both parties around the state could lead to more possible disqualifications.

James Craig, a former Detroit police chief and current front-runner for the GOP nomination for governor, employed paid circulators to assist his campaign.

As a result of his contractors’ actions, Craig may have to leave the race.

Craig filed nominating petitions containing 21,000 signatures by the April 19 deadline.

Under normal circumstances that would have been a comfortable surplus as only 15,000 valid signatures are required to secure a place on the Aug. 2 primary ballot.

Challengers from the Michigan Democratic Party, along with a battery of law firms, exercising their right to examine any candidate’s petitions, claim to have discovered 6,933 potentially defective signatures on Craig’s……