A challenge filed with Michigan's election board alleges that a group trying to repeal the prevailing wage law submitted 25,000 fewer valid signatures that necessary to qualify.
Protect Michigan Jobs filed the challenge Monday with the Bureau of Elections. It says while a group opposing prevailing wage submitted 388,000 signatures, only 221,000 - maybe fewer - are valid after tossing duplicates and other invalid signatures.
Attorney John Pirich says the petition "woefully fails."
Michigan law requires higher wages on public construction jobs.
Nonunion contractors and conservative donors financed a petition drive to rescind the law. If the signatures are certified next week, the Republican-led Legislature can pass the bill with no possibility of a veto.
Protecting Michigan Taxpayers says it won't let "big labor" attempt to "disenfranchise" voters.
Challenge: Anti-prevailing wage group short 25K signatures
