Bogaert v. Land

OPINION

ROBERT HOLMES BELL, District Judge.

Plaintiff Rose Bogaert was the sponsor of an effort to place a recall vote against State Representative Andrew Dillon on the November 4, 2008, general election ballot. Defendant Terri Lynn Land, in her capacity as Michigan Secretary of State, after striking signatures from Plaintiffs petitions that were gathered in violation of Michigan’s district residency requirement, Mich. Comp. Laws § 168.957, determined that Plaintiffs recall effort did not gather a sufficient number of signatures to be placed on the general election ballot. Plaintiff filed this…