The Michigan Court of Appeals has voted 2-1 to keep Matt Morgan off the Democratic primary ballot for U.S. House, district one. See this story. He will now attempt to obtain enough write-in votes in the August primary to be nominated. He had enough valid signatures, but his petition was invalidated because he used a post office address for himself on the petition forms, instead of his residence address.
No other Democrat tried to get on the ballot for that race, so the Democratic ballot will list no names for U.S. House.
How many PO Box addresses in RURAL areas — with no roads — as in most of the USA for many decades ???
It seems like it would be easier to run as an independent. Does Michigan allow stickers for write-ins?
SCANNER BALLOTS — MUST MARK WRITE-IN OVAL AND WRITE-IN NAME.
STICKERS CAN EASILY JAM SCANNER MACHINES.
I was wondering, because the statute made references to pasting in.
STILL SOME STUFF IN ELECTION LAW RE YE OLDE BEDSHEET PAPER BALLOTS — WHICH DID ALLOW STICKERS.
Are either the LP or the Greens running anyone in that district. For the LP, since the LP now has primaries in Michigan, it would seem that if they don’t have anyone on the primary ballot, someone from that party could also run as a write in candidate. I noticed that there was an LP candidate for that race in 2016, and she got 3.7% of the vote.