The State Board of Canvassers has disqualified a candidate from running for Tuscola County Circuit Court after he put the November general election date on his paperwork, rather than the correct date of August’s primary.
Hugh A. Woodrow, who was running as a non-partisan candidate for Tuscola County’s 54th Circuit Court against incumbent Amy Gierhart, had his nominating signatures challenged by a Caro woman, who alleged that the petition should be rejected due to incorrect office designation, registration errors, improper dating and more.
While Woodward, a business law attorney moving to Tuscola county from the Bloomfield Hills area, did admit to some of the allegations and deny others, ultimately, Michigan’s State Board of Canvassers found that it was the headers of the petition pages that disqualified the candidate.
According to a report by the board, though Woodrow filed 274 signatures, none of them qualified as valid, as instead of putting the date of August 6, 2024, the day of the state’s primary election and the first race to be run for the judge position, he had placed the date of the November 5th general election instead.
Woodrow is allowed to appeal the decision, with it unclear if he plans to do so.
