Conyers' Ballot Disqualification Challenged
Monday, May 12, 2014
Last Update: 4:29 PM PT
... On Monday, Detroit residents Ederl Edna Moore and Tiara Willis-Pittman sued Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson and the Wayne County Clerk in Federal Court.
"The United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and courts across the country have struck down voter registration requirements for petition circulators because such requirements violate the First Amendment right to freedom of speech and freedom of political association," the woman say in the lawsuit.
Moore, 72, worked on Conyers' first congressional campaign in 1964, "and has supported him ever since," she says in the complaint.
Willis-Pittman circulated nominating petitions for Conyers and collected more than 90 signatures for him in March this year. "Before circulating petitions, Ms. Willis-Pittman filled out a voter registration application and believed that she was registered to vote," the complaint states. "However, the County Clerk ultimately determined that her application had been either untimely filed or untimely processed and that Ms. Willis-Pittman was not, in fact, a registered voter at the time she collected signatures. Consequently, the Clerk's staff concluded that all of the signatures collected by Ms. Willis-Pittman were invalid" ...
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