Obsessive Pedantic Corrective Disorder display in five, four, three…
Queen of Diamonds!! I win!!
C’mon, he’s just calling it like it is.
This is my congressman of “McCotter Rocks” infamy, and I’m just so proud.
The rule that a candidate must turn in between 1,000 and 2,000 signatures is a weird requirement that was bound to result in this kind of mess sooner or later. When I read “maximum of 2,000” in the copied post I thought there must have been a typo.
And bouncing both duplicate signatures is another. Seems like a further review is needed here. Equity, and all that.
I’m shooting from the hip (as well as being on the train in Minnesota, between St Paul and St Cloud), but I’m pretty sure that in the SoW all signatures are invalidated in case of duplication. Rationale seems to be that signing more than once is considered evidence of fraudulent intent.
How long before this is blamed on “Democrat” operatives trying to sabotage noble Congressman McCotter? Those darn sneaky liberals!
You mean it hasn’t already? Somebody at Fox News had better wake up!
(I rather imagine the Freepers are all over it, but my gag reflex is such that I daren’t check.)
You libs are all the same. Of course you kneejerk react and think Fox news would be anything other than direct, honest and clear, just because some of their commentators in their non-news hours are conservative. They will not “blame it on a Democrat.” They will change his party affiliation in the Chyron.
Yeah, that confused me at first, but if that’s the case, it makes the whole thing even dumber and easier to avoid. If you’ve only got 2000 signatures to check, how hard is it to get a couple campaign volunteers to check 'em over before they’re ever turned in?
Could this be Gingrich/Virginia-like situation? That is, for years no one ever contested the party’s efforts to get on the primary ballot, so devoting precious campaign resources to validation seemed wasteful.
OK, I don’t get the stupid here. The SOS says he hasn’t turned in enough signatures. The SOS also says he has turned in 2k, the maximum allowed. How is this a fuck-up on the Republican guy’s part, and not the SOS ?
He turned in 2000 signatures, and enough of them were invalid that he doesn’t have enough valid signatures to be on the ballot.
Well, the SOS is a Republican (assumed because of the “False Democratic Ad pulled” bit on her website
Of course, her apparently strictly applying the law to a fellow Republican actually earns her kudos, not Stupid Republican points.
I’m wondering if it’s tangentially due to the Font Size debacle.
Michigan’s pretty solidly ruled by Republicans right now (and I mean that in a dictatorial sense) and McCotter’s well respected, so it’s not like anyone in Lansing or the Republican party would be looking for a nit-picky excuse to invalidate his signatures, but the SOS came down on the side of the petition collectors in the emergency manager repeal case. There may be an attitude of “Fine, if petitions must be perfect, then they ALL have to be perfect.” But I don’t know who specifically in Lansing would choose to make McCotter a sacrificial lamb in that case.
And that doesn’t excuse McCotter’s camp for not checking over his own signatures. 2000 signatures, and only HALF had to be valid; that’s what, an afternoon’s work just to look for duplicates and Mickey Mouses?
Oh, so that’s the elephant that I missed. Looks bigger in person.
Thanks 
I know this is a few weeks old, but here goes:
Samuel “Joe The Plumber” Wurzelbacher (R) is running in Ohio for the Congressional seat now held by Democrat Mary Kaptur. Kaptur’s people have repeatedly pointed out that “Joe” isn’t a licensed plumber in Ohio, so what does “Joe” do? He “Accuses Kaptur of disrespecting his and other veterans’ military service”
Hold it…Wait… What???
This just reminds me why I no longer watch political debates. I seem to spend most of my time screaming, “HOW ABOUT YOU JUST ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTION?!?” Using “Joe’s” logic, since I was a Combat Medical Specialist (91B-10) in the US Army in 1984, that makes me an EMT today? Right? And anyone questioning my credentials is hateful of the military and our veterans?
Seriously, what planet do the people live on?
Bizarro World, obviously.
The problem is not so much that they live there as that a significant portion of the electorate is right there with them.
Well, more than Joe’s background makes him a plumber.
This article says that only 244 of the 2000 signatures were non-duplicates. Duplicates were photocopies of the originals, some of which have different pollster names on each copy. Also, some of the signatures appear to be cut-and-pasted from some other source, but since they’re from real voters, they were not excluded. So it’s not clear how many of the 244 were actually signed this year.