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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWisconsin 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 states 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 Wisconsins 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
zbdent
(35,392 posts)terrorism, and the petitions held as evidence, and then "lost" ...
You're giving them ideas!
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)... 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)by at least three people... I agree that the number of "bad" signatures will be very low.
Solidarity!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)alterfurz
(2,474 posts)...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!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)spartan61
(2,091 posts)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.
a kennedy
(29,672 posts)ON WISCONSIN!!! and thank you all for the hard work.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)onestepforward
(3,691 posts)I can't wait! This is so exciting!