The Nebraska Secretary of State’s office announced today that Brett Lindstrom did not meet the statutory requirements to appear as a nonpartisan candidate for governor on the 2026 general election ballot. The Lindstrom campaign submitted 5,765 signatures, of which 3,358 signatures were validated.
To be placed on the ballot by petition as a candidate for Governor, at least 4,000 valid signatures from registered Nebraska voters must be collected and, of those, there must be at least 750 from registered voters in each of the three congressional districts.
During the signature validation process a significant number of signatures were found to be fraudulent. A number of the submitted petition pages containing fraudulent signatures had been circulated by three of the individuals who were arrested earlier this month on suspicion of circulator fraud. Information has been passed along to the Nebraska Attorney General’s office for further investigation.
