Despite pushing Trump's 'Big Lie,' the Michigan GOP is defending its candidates who submitted fake petition signatures.
on whether to accept or reject the recommendation, effectively leaving in place the bureau’s decision to disqualify all five candidates, although Republicans have vowed to challenge the outcome in court.that the fraud scheme uncovered by the election officials is “the largest I’ve ever seen.”
“Disqualifying two of the highest polling candidates in this primary, as well as three others who have expended significant resources in their campaigns, is disenfranchising to Republican voters who ultimately should be the decision-makers,” he argued. “Most of the people who signed these petitions of the five candidates that were involved in this process weren’t real people,” he said. “So there’s no real legal harm to anyone, in the sense that these weren’t real voters. These were fictitious signatures of fraudulent circulators. So that’s a bogus argument.
Republicans on the board sided with the candidates, though it would have required three votes to overturn the Bureau of Elections’ recommendation. Republican Chairman Norman Shinkle argued that the circulators “should all go to prison” but said he was “not prepared to shift any burden to the candidates.”
“I don’t know how anyone in good conscience would say these candidates should be on the ballot when they couldn’t do something as fundamental as circulate properly registered voter signatures and turn them in,” he said. “I mean, to put them on the ballot would be an insult to the whole process.”
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