DETROIT — The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday ended the chances of at least three Republican gubernatorial candidates to appear on the August primary ballot, siding with the state Bureau of Elections in ruling a deluge of forged signatures were enough to keep them off the ballot.
The high court majority in Friday orders denied the appeals of businessman Perry Johnson of Bloomfield Hills, financial adviser Michael Markey of Grand Haven and former Detroit police Chief James Craig, arguing in Johnson's case that "there is nothing here meriting our further time or attention."
Johnson's complaint "lacks merit because he cannot show that the Board of State Canvassers had a clear legal duty to certify his name to the ballot," wrote Chief Justice Bridget McCormack.
