From the Traverse City Record-Eagle:
PESHAWBESTOWN — Three candidates for Tribal Council were booted from the ballot, and the election is postponed until next week.
Three council positions are open for the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, those held by incumbents Rebecca Woods, Connie TwoCrow and Sandra Anderson. Tribal election officials removed Woods from the ballot, along with candidates Gail Diaz and Angela Shinos, for election rules violations.
Tribal documents show the Election Board removed Woods from the ballot because she didn’t sign the bottom of her absentee ballot application. The board removed Diaz and Shinos for not submitting absentee ballot applications at all, as election rules require.
Fellow candidate George Antoine reported the problem with Diaz’s and Shinos’ paperwork, while the Election Board discovered Woods’ unsigned absentee ballot application during an election records audit, documents show.
The remaining candidates include Antoine, along with Matthew Anderson, incumbent Sandra Anderson, Joyce Duford, Steven Feringa, Shocko Hall, Robert Kewaygoshkum, Thurlow “Sam” McClellan, Leonard G. Miller, Alvin Pedwaydon, Freddy Raphael, Jane Rohl, Michael Shananaquet, Tom Shomin, Charles D. Stewart, incumbent Connie TwoCrow, Sharon Wasageshik and Sandra Yannott.
The election will be held April 14 and polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tribal members can vote at the tribe’s administration building in Peshawbestown, or at tribal satellite offices in Benzonia, Traverse City and Charlevoix.
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