Posted on 01/30/2012 6:55:11 AM PST by BlueMondaySkipper
Possible errors uncovered on petitions GAB will make final ruling on recall petitions Updated: Monday, 30 Jan 2012, 4:48 AM CST Published : Sunday, 29 Jan 2012, 6:55 PM CST
Mark Leland MADISON - The tedious task of reviewing the more than 1.9 million recall signatures in Wisconsin is underway. Government Accountability Board staff are looking for invalid signatures and errors on the petition sheets.
While separately volunteers with incumbent Governor Scott Walker, Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch and four Republican state senators are also scrutinizing the petitions. And the petitions are not error-free.
We asked GAB Public Information officer Reid Magney to explain some of the errors workers might be looking for.
"Is it all filled out correctly? Is the header on top correct? For each line is there a signature, an address, a complete date. You can't just sign 12-1-11. It has to be 12-1-2001," said Magney. "That's one of the requirements in the law, it has to be completely filled out and the bottom of the petition has to be completely filled out as well."
So far only the petitions for the state senators have been posted online.
We reviewed some of the petitions targeting State Senator Scott Fitzgerald. We found page after page showing the date not fully written out. On some petition pages it occurred on several of the signature lines. On other pages the date was abbreviated on every line, which according to Magney would be an error and could disqualify those signatures. So we contacted Magney once again for clarification--asking if what we found would be considered an error.
"Possibly, we'll have to see. But it has to be the full year spelled out," reiterated Magney by phone.
Lawyers for the incumbents will have the opportunity to challenge any signature or entire petition sheets due to errors in filling out the forms or ineligible names.
Lawyers for the petitioners will also be able to make an argument to keep any challenged names.
During last summer's review of recall petitions for 9 state senators, the board eliminated thousands of names, but kept enough to certify each recall election.
We went back and looked at a sampling of last summer's petitions and found the same date discrepancy-- but the signatures were not challenged.
Anyone at home with access to a computer can check the petitions too. Those who didn't sign a petition can look to see if their name was fraudulently added. And on the flip side someone who signed a petition can see if it was omitted from those turned in.
Unfortunately though state law only allows the petitioners and the incumbent campaigns to raise objections.
"I think people who have concerns about their names appearing on the petitions can talk directly to the office holders or names not appearing can also talk with the petitioners," said Kevin Kennedy, GAB director.
The campaigns for the four state senators received copies of the petitions for their review on January 20th and the courts gave them 20 days to review them for errors and ineligible names.
The Governor and lieutenant governor campaigns were given 30 days to review the petitions starting the day after they receive them from the GAB--which was Friday for the Governor. The clock will start ticking for the lieutenant governor's review sometime this week.
The Government Accountability Board plans to meet February 7th to address how to handle complaints about the recall petitions and their signatures.
Look for the libtards to go ballistic if that happens.
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In all seriousness, there should be a requirement - if more than 10% or 15% are found invalid/fraudulent, the whole thing is thrown out. There has to be some accountability when these obvious fraudsters are ‘collecting’ signatures. This business of piling on oceans of fake people is ridiculous.
It will be interesting to see if the courts side with the full 4-digit year requirement.
From the news story it appears the 4-digit year requirement will lead them to toss a huge number of petitions.
I agree this has to stop somewhere, so if they lose can they turn around and do another petition drive?
I doubt any of the signatures are valid at all, then.
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There’s probably requirements for how many times and for how long.. after all, it costs taxpayers a bunch so while it’s important to have partitioning ability. It’s not designed or intended to be used as perpetual harassment.
DemonRats never follow the Rules/ Law and pi$$ and moan when they get caught but always seem to manage to find some libtard judge who sides with them. GRRRRRRRR
Pray that this is upheld and the law is followed. This could be GR8 that most of the signatures were thrown out and they should be since a Michigan college campus was floating the petition around according to fellow FReeper ( Cripplecreek ???? I think it was that mentioned this )
When do I need to leave the warmer climes to go north and vote for Gov. Walker et al? When’s the election recall date?
No mention of dead or invalid petitioners? (I guess those aren’t mutually exclusive of one another)
How can it only be "possible" and then turn in the same breath say that the date "has to be" - typical tap dancing by these people.
On some of the pages I worked on, the date was just "11". And . . . you have to wonder at the million + signatures. I saw some pages with only five signatures and one that had a single entry. I half suspect, as a previous poster suggested, that the anti-Walker people figured 10 signatures to a page by x amount of pages turned in and voila! over a "million" signatures.
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