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Updated: 7:25 AM Jan 9, 2009
Date Dilemma for Wisconsin Superintendent Candidate
A changing calendar can mean trouble when you're running for political office. Posted: 7:23 AM Jan 9, 2009 |
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BELOIT, Wis. (AP) -- A changing calendar can mean trouble when you're running for political office.
Take Beloit School Superintendent Lowell Holtz, who's seeking the job of Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction.
He says he fell short on his nomination petitions because some signers wrote the date as 2008, even though they signed on January 4th of 2009.
Those signatures got bounced by the Government Accountability Board, which oversees state elections. Three candidates turned in the required 2,000 valid signatures by Tuesday's deadline, but Holtz and another candidate didn't. Holtz was credited with just 1,930 signatures.
The two were given until this afternoon at 5 p.m. to make corrections.
Holtz says he got those who used the wrong year to correct the mistake, and he fully expects to be on the ballot.
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