LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A Michigan Senate committee has voted to let the filing deadline for Flint’s mayoral primary be extended after a clerk’s error left them off the August ballot.
Legislation approved Thursday would allow an adjustment this year in the filing deadline for city offices if a clerk publishes the wrong deadline.
State election officials have said Flint Clerk Inez Brown mistakenly told candidates their nominating petitions with at least 900 valid signatures were due April 28. The actual deadline was April 21.
Michigan law doesn’t permit a clerk to extend a deadline.
Mayor Dayne Walling, Councilman Wantwaz Davis and businesswoman Karen Weaver submitted their petitions after the real deadline. They would be write-in candidates unless the deadline is extended.
The bill is sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Jim Ananich of Flint.
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