Posted on 01/17/2012 12:39:03 PM PST by Sub-Driver
In Scott Walker recall, Wisconsin Dems tout 1 million recall signatures
By: MJ Lee January 17, 2012 02:38 PM EST
Organizers behind the recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker collected 1 million signatures to be submitted to the state’s Government Accountability Board on Tuesday, dwarfing the required number of names and virtually ensuring that a recall election will take place later this year.
A total of 540,208 valid signatures, or 25 percent of all of the votes cast in the election that put Walker in office last January, were needed to force a recall election, but organizers had aimed for hundreds of thousands more than the minimum requirement to ensure that they met the threshold even if some signatures are disqualified.
The Wisconsin Democratic Party was quick to dub the recall effort — which also targeted Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and a handful of Republican state legislators — the “biggest” in American history, and boasted that organizers had gathered a whopping 460,000 extra signatures for the recall of Walker, who infuriated many in his state last year by pushing through a law that ended most collective bargaining rights for many public workers.
Meagan Mahaffey, executive director of United Wisconsin – the group behind the recall efforts – told POLITICO that Tuesday’s results sent a “crystal clear message to Scott Walker that voters are done with his extreme policies and his destruction that he’s doing to our state.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
...or Che Guevera, Adolf Hitler and Heywood Jablowme ?
Normally, that would be a safe margin. Multiple signatures has been a strategy from the outset here (I work in Madison). They probably would have stoppped at 720,000, but padded it to dishearten the army that will have to go through these things.
That and a buck will get you a cup of coffee, but you better have the $1.
400,000 duplicates, 300,000 dead people, 200,000 out-of-staters, and 100,000 union members and Commie students.
See - this is what professionals do.
You bury the count and then even if 25 percent get tossed, it still sails through.
Why can’t our candidates for the presidency understand this simple principle?
You missed one.
How many of those “votes” happened to be bought and paid for with money directly out of the US Treasury?
.....and don’t waste my time with any pitches about purity of the process. I grew up too close to Chicago.
I'm one of the 8,500 +/- people in the http://www.VerifyTheRecall.com "army". Two hours of my time in the next two days or so to check my share (125 +/-) of signatures is no burden.
So if its consistent with other recent signature campaigns run by the leftists in OH around 27% of the signatures will be fraudulent...although my bet is it will be a lot more than that here because of the allowance of signing as many times as you want.
So lets say they have 850,000 recall signatures that are legit(once again I think its lower due to fraud). Walker garnered close to 300,000 more actual votes during the election.
Now this election will also have a voter ID requirement which could cut down fraudulent votes even more.
How much voter passion will be there for some second rate nominee picked by the thug left?
The math doesn’t add up IMO. Good for them that they got to have their temper tantrum in public...can’t wait for the one after they get crushed.
Methinks they didn't get that vaunted million.
I have a better idea:
Make intentional voting fraud of any type a capital offense.
I’m sick and tired of my vote being disenfranchised.
Once this country experiences its next revolution, it would be a good idea to have this coded into our next version of the U.S. Constitution, IMO.
Once the inevitably large number of invalid signatures is established be sure to use that to push for voter id.
If that’s what it takes to sent the leftist thugs to the wilderness for a few years so be it.
The cost to us Wisconsinites if Walker was to lose would make that 9 million look like a drop in the bucket.
Additional benefit is the campaign commercials pointing out how the left likes to spend money that once again isn’t theirs to blow.
All Union signatures.
We already passed that...its in the midst of lawsuits in Dane County right now. :)
Good points... I hope that this turns out to be a huge mistake for the left, in which case the $9M will be well spent.
““crystal clear message to Scott Walker that voters are done with his extreme policies and his destruction that he’s doing to our state.””
Just exactly what destruction IS that? The state is projecting a surplus and the school districts are now running in the black. To the best of my knowledge no teachers were fired.
Where’s the destruction?
I suspect that Citizens of WI are the minority on the Petitions, and that nearly all signatories are Union Members.
I hope enough non-Union and Tax Paying WI residents VOTE against it in the Election.
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