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RandySF

(58,884 posts)
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 02:34 PM Jan 2012

Wisconsin Dems To Deliver Walker Recall Petitions Next Week (TPM)

Wisconsin Democrats have announced they will submit the petition signatures in their effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker next Tuesday, January 17 — with a massive drop-off of boxes at the state’s election administration agency, the Government Accountability Board:

Julie Wells, the Janesville grandmother and factory worker who triggered the recall, will be joined by volunteers from Wisconsin’s 72 counties, who will load scores of boxes from a truck dubbed the “Forward Flyer” into GAB offices.

Also present and available to the media will be representatives from the recall efforts against four Republican senators.

Back in mid-December, the Dems announced that they had collected over 507,000 signatures in 30 days, getting very close to the legal threshold of just over 540,000 signatures in 60 days. (They are also working towards a goal of 720,000 total, in order to have an absolute buffer against disqualifications.) The party also told TPM at the time that this 507,000 figure takes into account also own efforts to weed out bad signatures.


http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/wisconsin-dems-to-deliver-walker-recall-petitions-next-week.php?ref=fpb

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Wisconsin Dems To Deliver Walker Recall Petitions Next Week (TPM) (Original Post) RandySF Jan 2012 OP
Watch the petition carriers be arrested for zbdent Jan 2012 #1
Shut up!!! Zalatix Jan 2012 #10
Firstly, there will be no significant numbers of 'bad' signatures. We're working hard .... Scuba Jan 2012 #2
Petitions in our area were checked over very carefully snacker Jan 2012 #3
Same here. Three checks before they go to Madison. n/t Scuba Jan 2012 #5
and because field office checking has been so good... alterfurz Jan 2012 #8
Thanks for adding that! It's been a great team effort! Scuba Jan 2012 #12
They better make sure that truck is well protected. WI_DEM Jan 2012 #4
Hope there are watchers of the counting, and watchers of the watchers. northoftheborder Jan 2012 #6
We can only guess what tricks Walker and Co. spartan61 Jan 2012 #7
This wonderful news..... a kennedy Jan 2012 #9
That was fast. Go Wisconsin. jwirr Jan 2012 #11
K & R Liberal_Dog Jan 2012 #13
K&R! onestepforward Jan 2012 #14

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
1. Watch the petition carriers be arrested for
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 02:38 PM
Jan 2012

terrorism, and the petitions held as evidence, and then "lost" ...

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
2. Firstly, there will be no significant numbers of 'bad' signatures. We're working hard ....
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 02:42 PM
Jan 2012

... to keep everything on the up-and-up.

Secondly, we will have plenty-plenty signatures. 800,000 or more by my guess.


Delivery is tentatively scheduled at the GAB at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday if you want to be there cheering. Bring a hat.

snacker

(3,619 posts)
3. Petitions in our area were checked over very carefully
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 02:50 PM
Jan 2012

by at least three people... I agree that the number of "bad" signatures will be very low.

Solidarity!

alterfurz

(2,474 posts)
8. and because field office checking has been so good...
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 04:04 PM
Jan 2012

...minimal errors are being found once petitions reach Madison Recall HQ. Each page goes through 6 separate processing steps here, and at one stage or another I can now claim to have personally seen around 18,000 pages/100,000 signatures, with *very* few problems. Everything's shipshape, with all 6 recall torpedoes running hot, straight and normal!

spartan61

(2,091 posts)
7. We can only guess what tricks Walker and Co.
Thu Jan 12, 2012, 03:55 PM
Jan 2012

have up their sleeves to block the recall petition. I am so impressed with he volunteers in WI. They are a model for the other states. I haven't seen numbers since the original 507,000 in Dec. and I can only assume that the Dems don't want to show their hand until they surprise the Walker supporters with the huge number of signatures for the recall. I hope those petitions are well protected.

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