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Tagged: election fraud

Politics & Government
3:10 pm
Tue November 27, 2012

McCotter aides enter pleas in petition fraud case

Former Republican Congressman Thaddeus McCotter jammed with his blues band after announcing his run for the presidency over the July 4th weekend in 2011.
Credit Vincent Duffy / Michigan Radio
Former Republican Congressman Thaddeus McCotter resigned in May after failing to submit enough signatures to get him on the ballot.
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By Michigan Radio Newsroom

Two campaign staffers of former U.S. Representative Thaddeus McCotter have entered pleas on charges connected to the petition fraud scandal that forced the congressman’s resignation.

From the Detroit News:

McCotter's former deputy district director, Don Yowchuang, and a high school classmate of McCotter's, Paul Seewald, entered the pleas Tuesday before Wayne Circuit Court Judge Margie R. Braxton.

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Politics & Government
4:21 pm
Wed October 10, 2012

Election fraud and the case of the two John Scotts

Credit Oakland County Michigan
This John Scott is the Republican commissioner of Oakland County. But there's another John Scott on this fall's ballot.
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2012 just may go down as the year of election fraud in Michigan.  After scandals involving Jase Bolger and Thad McCotter, now it's the case of the two John Scotts.

The elder Scott is the Republican commissioner of Oakland County. He says this summer he heard about another John Scott, this one a 22-year-old Eastern Michigan University college student,  who was gathering signatures to get on the ballot as an independent. 

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