Can you give us a box score on number of Republican vs. Democratic recall efforts and status?I think there were 8 and 8 (I know that it was an equal number of Republicans and Democrats). I've only been following the 12th district because I have family there. I'm actually in Florida. :-)
It’s a fairly rural district; I’m somewhat surprised they got as many as they did.
If the bureaucrats are going to conduct a crooked validation, you’re going to lose no matter what. In Michigan, they do a sample as I recall (so they don’t check all 23000 signatures, only a fraction of them and prorate).
How expensive is it to hold an election (as a proportion of state government expenses overall)? I really don’t know.
The way I read the Wisconsin Constitution (http://legis.wisconsin.gov/rsb/unannotated_wisconst.pdf),
if there are a sufficient number of valid signatures, the recall primary is automatically held. The greater challenge might be insuring that there is a candidate to challenge the incumbent — I couldn’t find if that was by fee or by signatures or what.