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    Montmorency County candidate elected to 2 separate positions on November 5

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    LANSING — One candidate in the Nov. 5 election may have been too successful.

    Republican Linsey Rogers ran for treasurer in Montmorency County – and won as the only write-in candidate, according to information posted on the county website.

    Rogers also ran for Atlanta’s Montmorency Community School Board — and won there, too, finishing third out of three candidates for three seats on the Michigan Northern Lower Peninsula community board, the report says. website.

    Rogers’ double victories are now the subject of litigation. They were also brought up Friday at the Board of State Canvassers meeting in Lansing, where Assistant Attorney General Heather Meingast said Rogers’ two victories appeared to be a violation of Michigan’s civil office law incompatible.

    Meingast told board members they had no jurisdiction to become involved in such a matter. She advised the board to certify the Michigan elections, including Rogers’ two victories, and allow the situation to be resolved elsewhere.

    Under state law, no one can simultaneously hold two public offices that are deemed incompatible.

    Montmorency Clerk Cheryl Neilsen said current Treasurer Cheri Eggett, who ran Nov. 5 as a write-in candidate, filed suit in Montmorency County Circuit Court over the dual candidacy of Rogers and had lost. The case is now before the Michigan Court of Appeals, Neilsen said Friday. She declined to say whether she had determined whether the two functions were incompatible.

    Rogers could not be reached, but she discussed her dual candidacy in an Oct. 3 public post on her Facebook page. Rogers said she was not convinced the two positions were incompatible and that if they were considered incompatible, her name should not have appeared twice on the county ballot. Rogers said if the positions proved incompatible, she was willing to give up her school board position to become county treasurer.

    State law says that public offices are incompatible if one is subordinate to the other, if one supervises the other, or if the performance of the duties of a public office could create a breach of duty. linked to the other public service. Running for two incompatible positions could potentially disqualify a candidate from both.

    “The two positions of Montmorency County Treasurer and Atlanta School Board have not been proven to be incompatible,” Rogers said on Facebook.

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    In a statement that does not appear consistent with the rest of her Oct. 3 post, Rogers said in the same Facebook post that she had dropped her candidacy for the school board, even though her name would appear on the ballot.

    Contact Paul Egan: 517-372-8660 or [email protected].

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