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A message was left Wednesday with the secretary’s office.
McCormick, a progressive who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. House in 2020 and U.S. Senate in 2018, filed a petition with nearly 2,000 signatures. Candidates for governor must get at least 1,000 signatures to get on the ballot under state law.
It was challenged by the state Democratic Committee, alleging that McCormick used a kind of automated form to fill out voters’ names. The state Democratic Committee discovered that on some lines, instead of a voter’s name, the words “First Name Middle Name Last Name” appeared. Lawyers argued it was an indication of a fraudulent scheme to merge a mailing list with the petition form.
Elections official seeks probe of rejected ballot petition
MIKE CATALINI, Associated Press
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) New Jersey s top elections official asked the state’s attorney general Wednesday to conduct a criminal investigation into a ballot petition submitted by a candidate aiming to challenge Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy in this year s primary.
Secretary of State Tahesha Way wrote in a final opinion on Lisa McCormick s ballot petition that, given the allegations of “fraud and violations of criminal law,” she was ordering the matter be referred to Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and the Division of Criminal Justice for investigation.
The attorney general s office declined to comment on the referral.