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.
A man fills in his ballot, in Lansing, Michigan, on Nov. 3, 2020. (John Moore/Getty Images)
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.
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