A signature forgery scandal has turned the race for the GOP nomination to be Michigan’s next governor on its head: Two leading Republican candidates did not collect enough signatures to qualify for the primary ballot after invalid signatures were excluded, according to a report from the state’s Bureau of Elections.
Forging signatures gotta be about as dumb as it gets. So easy to get caught.
Walk the streets – as I did in the early 80s – and you can get all real signatures.
Some will refuse, but enough are willing so that there’s no need for this stupidity.
Also, it’s vote fraud and can get you sent to the jug.
The John Smallberries signature gave it all away.
Here’s more names from the list:
John Barnett
John Bigboote
John Camp
John Careful Walker
John Chief Crier
John Cooper
John Coyote
John Edwards
John Fat Eating
John Fish
John Fledgling
John Gomez
John Grim
John Guardian
John Icicle Boy
John Jones
John Joseph
John Kim Chi
John Lee
John Littlejohn
John Many Jars
John Milton
John Mud Head
John Nephew
John Nolan
John O’Connor
John Omar
John Parrot
John Rajeesh
John Ready to Fly
John Repeat Dance
John Roberts
John Scott
John Shaw
John Smallberries
John Starbird
John Take Cover
John Thorny Stick
John Turk
John Two Horns
John Web
John Whorfin
John Wood
John Wright
John Ya Ya
What’re you gonna do? Republicans.
Obvious Fake News. Only Democrats cheat at elections.
Only the best. This does seem like it might run afoul of election law. But then again, IOKIYAR.
“Big Boot-ay! Big Boot-ay!”
Once again; Republicans know that they can’t win fairly, so they cheat. I’ll be very interested to see the results of the Board’s vote. Lemme guess; a tie between the Dem and GOP members?
It turns out Trump was right all along. The election IS rigged. They ARE finding enough voters to win.
“Laugh while you can, monkey boy!” – E. Lizardo
The grift goes on and I’m so wrong…
I’m a griftin’ foooOOOOoool…
To me this has all the looks of a scam run by one Republican candidate against their competitors. Set up a company whose business is collecting signatures, get it recommended to all the the other candidates, perhaps by a friendly Republican leader in the state, purposefully collect enough fake signatures so the candidates fail to qualify. Eliminates most if not all your opposition, easy win for a low dollar investment compared to big spending on advertising. Just the thing I’d expect Republicans ethics to foster.
And the only candidate who didn’t turn in a bunch of fakes was the Big Lie-promoting, DeVos-funded Tudor Dixon. Hmm… Must be a coincidence.
The Republican candidates claim they were “defrauded” – but really, this kind of cheating is The Republican Way. Perhaps the candidates and their paid sig gatherers assumed that any Democratic office holders would either be feckless, or let them slide?
In my limited experience, Democrats in my area use VOLUNTEERS. There’s no financial gain per signature that way.
Good points. But the DeVos’ wouldn’t stoop this low, would they?
That looks very possible, just based on how these guys work. I hope the Democrats of Michigan reject them all.
The dirty trickers turn on their own. Never saw that coming. It is open season for fraud and cheating. Pop the popcorn…the show should be interesting.
So it’s now been established beyond doubt that all the GOP hot air about electoral fraud is pure projection. They accuse Dems of stealing elections because they are trying to steal the election. Not complicated.
We need to realize that it’s projection all the way down with these people. So when Trump accuses Stacey Abrams, as he did yesterday, of wanting to “radicalize your children and plunder your wealth and all of the other things,” well, um, holy shit. “Plunder your wealth” should really make the rest of us sit up and pay attention. But for me, at least, the imagination quails when it gets to “all the other things.”
Two such cases in my former community involved Repubs.