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Related: About this forumVerify the Recall – Has Been Verified
http://bloggingblue.com/2012/03/03/verify-the-recall-has-been-verified/The results are in they should be advocating for stronger public schools!
I recently asked "who is going to verify the "Verify the Recall" group? Luckily for us, our friends at PR watch did just that:
Findings released this week from the Tea Party-led Verify the Recall effort allege that recall proponents fell short of the 540,000 signatures necessary to recall Governor Scott Walker. However, a cursory review of the pages they allege are erroneous actually include the information they claim is missing. Signatures the groups deem ineligible are very clearly legitimate. Some of the problems appear to arise from data entry errors on the part of True the Vote volunteers.
VTR said that they supposedly had approximately 4700 volunteers from across the country(who all shall remain anonymous) who entered 820,000 names and 138,203 petitions. The problem though was 1,000,000 names and 152,508 petitions were submitted. Oops. That means they flat out did not verify almost 60,000 signatures. According to their logic, if they did not enter the names they have to be ineligible. VTR also flagged another 228,940 forfurther investigation. Again, VTR logic states if they flag it, it must be ineligible.
Brendan @ PR Watch went through these and found a pattern. The ineligible signatures were embarrassingly to VTR eligibile. Lets look at some examples:
midnight
(26,624 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)Ya know, goose/gander, etc.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Watch.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Curious...
wandy
(3,539 posts)SWTORFanatic
(385 posts)repeats it.
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)They spelled my son's name wrong and it's A) a common name and B) pretty clear
They entered zip code wrong for my son, which could/would flag it - and it is right on petition - I am looking at scanned copy
The spelled put "Menomonee Galls" as municipality for my dad.... that's not what is written
Oh, and they listed my son and 2 of my best friends on the "Questionable" list. WTF does that mean?!?!
dembotoz
(16,826 posts)that little pocket of waukesha county galls me all the time
Olderandwizer
(1 post)I just "stumbled" across a site - "Put Wisconsin First" that has links to the recall petitions. I've been wondering if my name was still being counted - I made SURE that my printing was clear, my signature neat, and all required info was listed when I signed. This site has a link that searches by zip code. http://www.putwisconsinfirst.com/byzip.php I found my name on the Walker recall, but not on the Fitzgerald petition, which I had also signed. I don't know how accurate this site is - I believe it's one of those "third-party" verification sites. I WOULD like to know if my signature is actually counted for the Fitz recall. Does anyone know where I can check this out, and also if there is somewhere I can protest if my signature has not been counted?
I just found this DU site, and I think I'm going to like it here!
mopinko
(70,197 posts)dragonlady
(3,577 posts)I found our names, but some people who I know signed are not there. If you have a lot of time on your hands you could look through the petitions on the GAB site:
http://webapps.wi.gov/sites/recall/default.aspx
But I wouldn't worry about it. If your information was clear, that's better than most on the petitions!
And welcome to DU!