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Tightening the Direct Primary in Michigan; First Applications of the Filing Fee

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Taking note of the constantly increasing number of persons who were seeking nomination to public office in Wayne county, Michigan, a special election laws commission (1930) recommended a change in the laws governing the primary. The recommendation, accompanied by a draft of a bill, proposed to make it somewhat more difficult in that county for candidates to qualify for a place upon the primary ballots. The legislative response to this recommendation was an innocuous amendment providing for the deposit of a small filing fee as an alternative to the nominating petition. However, primary abuses during the depression years convinced the legislature that more drastic action was necessary, and in 1935 the election laws, as applied to Wayne county, were again amended abolishing the nominating petition and substituting the filing fee for “candidates for county office or office in the state legislature.†A similar provision was imposed by charter amendment for municipal offices in the city of Detroit.

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  • Dorr, Harold M., 1937. "Tightening the Direct Primary in Michigan; First Applications of the Filing Fee," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 31(1), pages 56-65, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:31:y:1937:i:01:p:56-65_03
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