The city Michael Moore proudly calls his hometown just notched another embarrassment in its record of failure: no one successfully filed to run for mayor.

One single, solitary person attempted to file a petition in time to appear on the August primary ballot to run for mayor of Flint, Michigan — the state’s seventh-largest city.

But Eric Mays, that lone person, only filed 852 valid signatures–well short of the 900 signatures required to qualify.

The process was thrown into chaos when the city clerk erroneously told prospective candidates they had until April 28th to file the required number of valid signatures. The real date was April 21st, Mlive reports.

Complicating matters, three other candidates – incumbent Mayor Dayne Walling, businesswoman Karen Weaver and councilman Wantwaz Davis – filed the required number of signatures by the date announced by the city. The Michigan Secretary of State, who oversees elections, says those candidates don’t count because they missed the actual deadline.

Mays is willing to go to court, if necessary, to have his signatures looked at again.

“Councilman Mays and his legal staff — we want to look at that and see if we can find 48 (valid signatures) in there … without (having to get) a court order,” he says.

The city may go to court to have all four candidates appear on the August ballot. If that’s not successful, it could be a write-in election for the city’s top job.

Whomever wins will have their hands full.

In 2013, Forbes magazine named the city the second-most “miserable” city in the country.

That same year, the Huffington Post ranked Flint as the “most dangerous” city in America. Residents there have a 1 in 37 chance of being the victim of a violent crime.

The public school system offers little hope.

Standardized test scores indicate less than 6.5% of Flint 8th graders are proficient in math while only 34.5% of them are proficient in reading. A paltry 1.4% of 8th graders are proficient in science.