Republican Election Integrity Campaigner Ann Manning Martin Disqualified From Primary Ballot Over Alleged Signature Fraud

Massachusetts Republican lieutenant governor candidate Anne Manning Martin has been removed from the primary ballot after officials found more than 1,200 of her nomination signatures were invalid, including some allegedly forged or linked to dead voters. (Credit: Office of Anne Manning Martin)

A Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Massachusetts has been thrown off the primary ballot after a state commission found that more than 1,200 of her nomination signatures were invalid, many of them allegedly forged.

Anne Manning Martin, a long-serving Peabody city councillor and corrections officer, was ruled ineligible for the 1 September Republican primary by the State Ballot Law Commission.