{"id":2329,"date":"2026-06-27T04:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2329"},"modified":"2026-06-27T04:12:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:12:02","slug":"forgery-scandal-eliminates-two-more-republicans-as-party-struggles-to-field-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2329","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Forgery&#8217; scandal eliminates two more Republicans as party struggles to field candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Boston Globe reports Two Republican candidates for statewide office, including the state party\u2019s de facto nominee for attorney general, won\u2019t appear on the September primary ballot after the commission that oversees ballots took issue with hundreds of nomination signatures they submitted.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2327\">Former GOP speechwriter tears into \u2018rancid\u2019 Megyn Kelly\u2019s hateful tirade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The result comes as a shock considering President Donald Trump and his Republican Party\u2019s purported war on voter fraud in what critics say is actually a ploy to remove Democratic voters from rolls.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the party\u2019s crusade, however, Anne Manning Martin, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, and Michael Walsh, the party\u2019s endorsed candidate for attorney general, were both knocked off after the commission found problems with enough of the signatures they had collected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn accordance with the Ballot Law Commission\u2019s decisions, the names of Anne Manning Martin for Lieutenant Governor and Michael C. Walsh for Attorney General will not be printed on the September 1, 2026, state primary ballots,\u201d said Deb O\u2019Malley, a spokesperson for Secretary of State William Galvin\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The commission invalidated 1,021 signatures of the 10,677 Walsh turned in to the secretary of state\u2019s office, leaving him hundreds of signatures short of the 10,000 required to make the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2325\">MAGA attacks fizzle as Harley stock rises: report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Manning Martin, the commission invalidated 1,279 signatures her campaign submitted, leaving her with only 9,413 \u201cvalid signatures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA general review of the certified signatures on the nomination papers also demonstrates they are likely fraudulent,\u201d the commission wrote in the decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Globe reports this decision is \u201cthe latest development in the signature fraud controversy that has now decimated the Republican ticket, knocking off two candidates for lieutenant governor and eliminating the party\u2019s sole challenger to Attorney General Andrea Campbell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state Republican party, already struggling to field candidates down-ballot, is now only officially challenging for three of the six statewide constitutional offices, all of which are currently held by Democrats,\u201d The Globe reports.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2323\">Speaker Johnson vows to protect the president sinking him: opinion<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe reports Two Republican candidates for statewide office, including the state party\u2019s de facto nominee for attorney general, won\u2019t appear on the September primary ballot after the commission that oversees ballots took issue with hundreds of nomination signatures they submitted.The res&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Forgery&#039; 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