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Board votes to subpoena Cornel West campaign for missing circulator signature samples
Summary
After staff reported it had reviewed 42 of 62 petition circulator exemplars and could not access roughly 20 circulator signatures, the Board of State Canvassers voted to issue a subpoena to the Cornel West campaign to produce the outstanding signature samples the bureau had requested.
The Michigan Board of State Canvassers voted to issue a subpoena to the Cornel West campaign directing production of petition circulator signature exemplars the campaign had not provided, following a staff update on an investigation ordered by the Court of Appeals.
Board staff told the panel they had reviewed circulator exemplars where available and had compared them either to the state qualified voter file or to identification provided by the campaign. Staff reported that of 62 circulators they identified for the petition, 28 appeared in Michigan’s qualified voter file and the campaign provided driver’s-license exemplars for 14 out-of-state circulators; together the bureau reviewed…
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