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Fail McCotter
Representative Thaddeus "Thad" McCotter (a Republican from Michigan) is a five-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Earlier this year, he flirted with a presidential run. Do you remember people talking about him? Right, you don't. Exactly.
So he decided to run for re-election, and that's when he ran into a problem.
See, to get yourself onto the ballot, you have to submit 2000 signatures. Thad McCotter didn't. Well, he submitted 2000 signatures, but not all of them are valid. When people started to look into this, his campaign finally admitted he didn't submit enough valid signatures.
Then people discovered that he didn't just miss it by a bit. Only 244 were valid. Now this is a bit low in part because state law says that if duplicates are found, none of them count. But still...
And it gets better. How did his campaign get that many signatures? They photocopied the sheets. Sometimes they changed the signature. Sometimes they didn't even do that.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120529/POLITICS01/205290388
A Daily Kos Elections user, KingofSpades, had this to say about the matter:
Comments
Why's he using Good Guy Greg?
Allegedly, Good Guy Greg looks more like Thad McCotter.
Oh, just for kicks: his campaign's probably gonna be investigated for fraud.
Good going, Thad.
Only 2000 signatures for candidating yourself for president? But that's ridiculously easy to get!
Then again, Michigan.
^No, the 2000 signatures are to run for the House of Representatives.
Ah, that makes more sense.
I read up on the details: You need to submit at least 1000 valid signatures, but no more than 2000 total signatures.
The proper way to do this is to gather up to 2000 signatures on a bunch of petition forms. Not photocopying forms with light photoshopping.
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/06/02/mccotter-calls-it-quits/
Well, he saw the writing on the wall and quit while he still has some dignity left.