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2 candidates for Michigan governor lose key ballot ruling

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By ED WHITE
Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) — Two Republican candidates for Michigan governor have lost their bids to get on the Aug. 2 primary ballot. The Michigan appeals court first ruled against Perry Johnson, a wealthy businessman considered to be a leading candidate for the GOP nomination. Then it applied the decision to Michael Markey. The ruling would also seem to doom the chances of former Detroit Police Chief James Craig and entrepreneur Donna Brandenburg. There seems to be no dispute that fraudulent signatures were turned in by paid circulators. Johnson says he would meet the 15,000-signature threshold if the state elections bureau would examine each petition line by line.

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