State probes McCotter petition - Such 'overt massive potential fraud is ... very rare,' ex-AG says
Source: Detroit News
May 31, 2012 at 1:00 am
State probes McCotter petition
Such 'overt massive potential fraud is ... very rare,' ex-AG says
By Marisa Schultz
The Detroit News
A criminal probe into doctored petitions for U.S. Rep. Thad McCotter may be uncharted territory as officials say they've never encountered such widespread signature problems.
About 87 percent of McCotter's signatures to get on the primary ballot were tossed because of duplicated copies and apparent copying and pasting of past signatures on his nominating petitions which the state's election chief said Tuesday was "frankly unheard of."
"No one has heard of anything so over the top before," echoed former Republican Attorney General Mike Cox. He added: "To have really overt massive potential fraud is really very unusual."
Secretary of State Ruth Johnson's office had turned over preliminary findings to Attorney General Bill Schuette's office, which won't comment. But Cox said investigators have tools working in their favor — a stack of paper evidence, names and signatures of circulators and the power of an investigative subpoena to compel circulators to talk.
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Johnson has made election fraud her priority. As Oakland County Clerk she helped expose the fake tea party scheme in the 2010 elections, where two former county Democratic Party officials where charged with creating bogus candidates on the ballot to confuse voters. Jason Bauer was sentenced in Oakland Circuit Court in January to 30 days in jail, one year's probation and more than $2,500 in fines and costs after pleading no contest to five counts of fraud. Michael McGuinness was sentenced to one year's probation for his role.
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Attorney General Bill Schuette is another of the Teabaggers who rode the wave in 2010.
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He must have some stats on the frequency of this type of fraud, then. Exactly how unusual is this?
Very unusual? Really very unusual? Potentially really very unusual? Overtly potentially massive? Really overtly massive? Really massively overt? Potentially massively unusual? Really unusually potentially massive? Typical of fraudulently massive overtness?
Republicans. 
