Aberdeen, SD (Hub City Radio) – Secretary of State Monae Johnson has announced that Robert Arnold, a Democratic candidate for Governor, did not have enough valid signatures to place his name on the Primary election ballot.

A Democratic candidate for Governor requires 1,232 valid signatures to appear on the ballot. The Secretary of State’s office conducted a random sample of the petition signatures and found 79.51% of the signatures to be valid.

Arnold submitted 1,407 signatures, and based on the results of the sample, 1,119 signatures were deemed valid.

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