Posted on 02/08/2012 3:35:25 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
About 15% of the signatures in a random sample of the petitions seeking the recall of Republican Gov. Scott Walker could not be verified, according to an analysis by the Journal Sentinel.
The review suggests that even if the number of unverifiable signatures turned out to be three times higher, Walker supporters - barring a new legal challenge - will have a difficult time striking enough of the 1 million signatures submitted to stop a recall election.
To force a recall election against Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, 540,208 valid signatures are needed for each - a figure equivalent to 25% of all the votes cast in the November 2010 election that put Walker in office.
Lynn Freeman, vice chair of the board of directors for United Wisconsin, said her group is confident the recall election will be certified.
"I don't want us to have a 15% problem, but even if we do, we are still far and above the signatures needed," Freeman said.
When asked to comment on the paper's findings, Walker's campaign referred a reporter to the state Republican Party, which did not respond to a request for comment.
The newspaper's review of 500 signatures is more rigorous than the verification process being conducted by the state Government Accountability Board.
Staffers at the state election agency will count a signature as valid if there is a signature and the address, municipality and date are legible and the signer lists a Wisconsin address. As part of its review, the accountability board will also look for fictitious names and eventually duplicate signatures.
The board will not consult public records unless the validity of the signature is challenged by an outside group, said Reid Magney, spokesman for the accountability board.
(Excerpt) Read more at jsonline.com ...
Wisconsin Recall Chances Analysis
If you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest list, please FReep Mail me.
There are searchable Data Bases (links) at the original source of this article. Be sure to click on the link.
If there aren’t enough signatures to challenge to prevent the recall election, there are still plenty to put on campaign adds, showing the depths to which the opposition is willing to stoop. That ought to really motivate the base to go to the polls, when the time comes.
So lets assume there will be a recall election. Can Walker and others survive?
yes they can survive
I think that Walker and Kleefisch will survive. There may not be enough petitions after chalenges for Fitzgerald, and he has no opponent yet (which leads me to believe that the Dems know that effort will fall short). I don’t know about the others. One of them (Galloway) is in her first term. VanWaanggard is facing the former incumbant, and I don’t know about the other one.
However, the AG should prosecute EVERY fraudulent signer, and those that allowed FRAUD to be conducted.
If this paper claims 15% rejection you can bet your boots it’s very likely 3X that ammount. I went through 50 and questioned 30 petitions. About half I suspected of being round tabled.
The state agency handling this GAB (government accountability board) is filled with hacks from the previous corrupt Doyle administration and of course channeled directly by the White House and its central government corrupt Demo-Com Obama administration.
The Walker recall petition were distributed throughout the various citys and counties and of course given a time line to return them to a central point. Usually after they’re collected the petitions and are grouped together from those sundry locations, and then submitted for validation/received stamp and page enumeration.
When filed by location a round tabled petitions can be easily spotted when compared to other similar petitions from the same area collected mostly by the same circulator although not allways.
But the GAB did not require this. Instead petitions were intermixed thus if certain circulators were round tabled, which is a group of people usually seated at a round table fraudlently filling out petitions. I spotted and questioned petitions from Shorewood a wealthy Milwaukee suburb and Milwaukee proper and found that a person seated next to me also scanning petitions had a petition from the same area with page numbers from a different batch and 200 pages awaynfrom what I has..
Yet both petitions look like they came off a Xerox machine.
I just hope the Walker folks keep all this material and when the appropriate time comes conducts a complete investigation and slammer time results.
The AG is useless.
This statement alone should be enough to have the GAB staff, particularly the executive level staff, investigated, fined, fired, and the whole agency disbanded. What a sick joke.
Point taken, but compared to the Madison papers, jsonline is absolutely neutral!
Absolutely!
Are they matching the actual signature to anything? I’d say that at least one in ten “signatures” are absolutely illegible, and that half of those couldn’t possibly be the signature of the person listed, a signature of any person, or any combination of letters in any language.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.