The Michigan Legislative Black Caucus accused Republican Tom Barrett’s campaign of misleading Black voters with an ad carrying the wrong election date.

The Michigan Legislative Black Caucus filed a complaint accusing Barrett's campaign of suppressing black voter turnout with misleading information.

Tom Barrett, a Republican running for Congress in Michigan, has published a new ad in a Black owned newspaper where he notes the wrong date of the upcoming election. In the ad, his campaign notes that Election Day is on November 6th.

Black state lawmakers in Michigan have called on the state’s attorney general and a county prosecutor to investigate Tom Barrett, a GOP candidate for the US House, over a newspaper advertisement in a Black-owned newspaper that listed the wrong date for Election Day.