"Over a million" signatures collected to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker

Post by Emily Mills on 1/17/2012 3:01pm

In a press conference shortly before 3,000 pounds of petitions were to be dropped at the offices of the Government Accountability Board on Tuesday afternoon, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and United Wisconsin announced that the campaign to recall Gov. Scott Walker from office had collected "over a million" signatures.

The campaign has also gathered over 850,000 signatures to recall Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, over 21,000 signatures for Republican Sens. Terry Moulton and Pam Galloway, and over 24,000 for Sen. Van Wanggaard.

“We very clearly believe that there is no challenge, both legal or otherwise, that will prevent these elections from going forward,” said DPW Chair Mike Tate. “Scott Walker is going to be recalled. It’s just a matter of how long the Walker campaign and the Government Accountability Board want to drag out this process to guarantee an election.”

“This represents the most participated-in major recall effort in American history,” noted United Wisconsin vice chair Ryan Lawler. “The collection of more than one million signatures is a crystal clear indication of how strong the appetite is to stop the damage and turmoil that Gov. Walker has caused Wisconsin.

“What we have accomplished is incredible.”

Once the signatures are delivered the GAB then has 60 days to process and certify the results. Normally there are just 30 days allotted for signature verification but the GAB has already asked for and received an extension.

GAB director Kevin Kennedy has stated that the board will likely require more than that 60 day time period for the review, after a Waukesha judge ordered that the GAB was responsible for a more thorough vetting of the signatures.

But Jeremy Levinson, legal council to the recall committees, called on GAB to complete the verification process quickly. “The process before GAB as it’s existed for decades is very straight-forward and very effective,” said Levinson. “Given the numbers we’ve turned in there will be no problem in very quickly ascertaining that we have, in each of these, triggered the recall election and gone beyond that.

“The right to recall is a constitutional right enshrined in the Wisconsin constitution…it is a sacred right, just as important as the right to vote.”

The DPW and UW could not cite a specific number for signatures gathered as there were still petitions being dropped off at their offices this morning.

VIDEO: Mike Tate announces the numbers

Emily Mills

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Wonderful

Submitted by Marcie (not verified) on Tue, 2012-01-17 18:22.

It is such a beautiful day in Wisconsin.
Thanks for the attachments. Those numbers are most interesting and downright lovely. (And so clearly presented.)
Heartfelt gratitude to all the volunteers who collected those signatures. You are heroes.

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Submitted by josephS (not verified) on Wed, 2012-01-18 23:51.

How can anyone believe in the integrity of this process if one party has control over the signatures? Were the signees required to prove WI residency? How do you verify names aren't duplicated? Were the signatures collected by "official WI" collectors, trained to be neutral?
Of course not.
This whole thing is stupid. People carrying on about as if political nirvana has finally arrived.
But it's a sham.
I do not have any faith in this process to be carried out fairly, at all. Sorry. If this sort of thing were to spread elsewhere in significant impact it would represent political chaos. It would signal the end of our current system of electing public officials where any time some relatively small but very vocal aggrieved party wanted to they could drum up a "recall," calling it "democracy in action.
This recall is an attack on democracy, not an example of it.

Those who signed petitions

Submitted by Emily Mills on Thu, 2012-01-19 10:35.

Those who signed petitions had to also include their address in Wisconsin, and then organizers and the neutral Government Accountability board check those names and addresses to make sure they match and are real places. Same goes for duplicates.

The recall process is enshrined in the Wisconsin constitution and there are procedures in place to ensure that they are carried out as fairly and securely as possible. Republicans attempted a recall against then Democratic Gov. Doyle a few years back - they just didn't collect enough signatures to trigger the election.

That's how it goes. If enough people wanted to see it changed then the people could push for a constitutional amendment to do away with the process.

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