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At least one of the Democrats who entered the presidential race late in the game, won’t be in the game in Michigan.
Former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick has fallen short of the number of petition signatures he needed to be included on the state primary ballot.
Patrick submitted 13,777 signatures – just 32 more than the minimum. More than 5,000 of the signatures were thrown out by the state Bureau of Elections. Around half of those disallowed were because the signers didn’t fill in their addresses or jurisdictions properly. The rest were tossed because of errors made by those collecting the signatures.
Eighteen Democratic presidential candidates were placed on the ballot without needing to collect any signatures, based on a list submitted by the state Democratic Party November 12th, but Patrick didn’t announce his candidacy until two days later.
A campaign spokesperson says they’ll consider options as they try to get his name on the ballot.
The Michigan presidential primary will be held March 10th.
Three of the 18 candidates originally named to the Democratic primary ballot have since withdrawn from the race.
