Clerk Inez Brown could be required to attend training school and have her office’s election work approved by the Genesee County Clerk John Gleason under the provisions of a bill approved today, May 27, by the state House Elections Committee. The substitute bill would allow Flint to have a standard primary election in August despite no mayoral candidates having turned in nominating petitions on time after Brown’s office gave them the wrong filing deadline.
Although the Michigan Senate approved legislation allowing for the election to go forward without sanctions on the clerk’s office, members of the House Elections Committee, who sharply questioned Brown in a hearing last week, added the provisions today.
Brown declined to comment on the changes, including one which would lift new training and education requirements for her office if she were to resign or be removed by City Administrator Natasha Henderson.
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