Michigan Governor Candidate Rejects Spot on Primary Ballot After Court Rejects Legal Objection

With candidate, businessman Perry Johnson Financial Advisor Michael MarqueeProceeded after Michigan Door-to-door visitor’s board got stuck Last week, the state’s elections office left a decision that the five candidates for governor did not have sufficient valid signatures to qualify for voting.

Johnson, who owns several businesses, Describe yourself as a “quality guru” He spent a lot of money on his own campaign and was considered a leading candidate for the Republican nomination. Attempts to contact him on Wednesday afternoon failed.

The Supreme Court may still have a lot of challenges, but there is not enough time as election officials are preparing to print and distribute the absentee ballot for the Primary on August 2. ..

In the case of Johnson, the Elections Department determined that his campaign submitted 9,393 invalid signatures and approximately 13,800 “face-valid” signatures, which fell below the 15,000 signature threshold.

Johnson argued that the state needed to match the suspected fraudulent signature with the signature in the state’s official voter file.

The court did not agree. “There was a clear legal obligation to investigate, but there was no clear legal obligation to compare each fraudulent signature with a voter file,” the state campaign committee said.