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As a side note, I heard a while back that in anticipation of him being recalled, Walker got the Republican controlled legislature to pass a law which puts the responsibility for overseeing all 'future' recall efforts, including the supervision of the verification of signatures, inside the Governor's office. He gets to personally appoint who will be deciding if and when the signatures have been verified or not, or for that matter, if all of the criteria has been met to even hold a recall election. This may not be over yet.




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Scott Walker Recall Petition is Full
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Tue, 17 Jan 12 5:19 AM
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Scott Walker Recall Petition is Full

January 16, 2012 at 6:08 pm Greg Laden

720,000 signatures have been collected to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Only 540,000 signatures were needed. The rest is, I suppose, a tip. Raw Story reports:

With Tuesday’s deadline fast approaching, The New York Times reports that Wisconsin’s activists are prepared to submit about 720,000 petition signatures, far surpassing the 540,000 needed to trigger a recall election later this year.

Before the election can proceed, the state’s election board will have to build a $100,000 database of registered voters and check each petition signature against the list. Assuming that more than 540,000 entries are valid, Walker will face the possibility of being only the third governor in U.S. history to be removed by recall election.

It will be interesting to see, if possible, how many petitions were faked. Remember a while back the Tea Party promised to do that? And if they did, it will be interesting to see if charges are filed.

http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/2012/01/16/scott-walker-recall-petition-is-full/


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