Todd Spangler:

Jonathan Brater, Michigan’s elections director, wrote the West campaign a letter dated Friday saying that the affidavits of identity submitted to the Secretary of State’s Office in June for West and his vice presidential running mate, Melina Abdullah, were not properly notarized.

Nick:

The campaign is adding Marc Elias, one of the party’s top election lawyers, to help Democrats counter what they expect to be a contentious postelection period.