Michigan Board of Canvassers Knocks Five Republican Candidates for Governor off BallotJordan Dixon-Hamilton 28 May 2022
Five Republican candidates for governor in Michigan will be kept off the state’s primary election ballot after the state Board of Canvassers deadlocked along party lines when determining the validity of the candidates’ signatures.
The board’s two Republicans voted against the staff’s recommendations that the GOP candidates be kept off the ballot over allegedly fraudulent signatures on their petitions to get on the ballot. However, because the two Democrats voted in favor of the staff recommendation, it stayed in place due to the tie vote.
Michigan law requires gubernatorial hopefuls to get at least 15,000 valid signatures to get their names on the ballot.
The deadlocked vote keeps former Detroit Police Chief James Craig and businessman Perry Johnson off the ballot, two of the GOP’s top candidates in the race to replace Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Craig said he’s “disappointed” with the board’s decision and called it a “travesty” in a statement.
“We are disappointed in the Board of Canvassers decision, but we are not surprised the partisan Democrats on the committee ruled against Michigan voters,” Craig said. “It is a travesty that partisans in a position to uphold democracy and the will of the people allowed politics to get in the way.”
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