Posted on 01/06/2012 7:22:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
This is excellent news for Walker - especially considering it is by no means certain that the coalition of big labor and online leftists who are seeking a recall election for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker can get the required number of signatures in time to beat the January 17 deadline.
They are going to find it considerably harder now.
A judge ruled Thursday that the state Government Accountability Board needs to take more aggressive action to vet recall signatures that are expected to be submitted in two weeks against Gov. Scott Walker and other Republican office holders.
The ruling by Waukesha County Circuit Judge J. Mac Davis came in a case filed Dec. 15 by Walker's campaign committee and Stephan Thompson, executive director of the state Republican Party, asking Davis to order the accountability board to seek out and eliminate duplicate and fictitious signatures and illegible addresses in recall petitions.
Davis, who refused to enter injunctions in the case, based his decision on his interpretation of state law, more than on equal protection arguments brought up by the Republicans. He also said that the board must take "reasonable" efforts to eliminate such signatures.
Kevin Kennedy, director and general counsel of the board, said after the hearing that his organization would have to discuss the decision to see what it needed to change in procedures already in place.
In court, Kennedy testified that entering signatures into a database to look for duplicates could take eight extra weeks for his staff, and could cost $94,000 for software and outside help.
Steven M. Biskupic, attorney for the Republicans, argued that not catching invalid signatures violated the constitutional rights to equal protection of people who chose not to sign recall petitions.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Article concludes:
“Momentum to recall Walker seems to have stalled. It’s hard to see how they can recapture it at this late date.”
That’s what you get for faking signatures like Bugs Bunny.
If I weren’t so graphically challenged I would put my thoughts into pictures. I am doing the “Happy Dance”...very cool
How do they know it was fake?
Have we ever seen Bugs Bunny’s signature?.........
I guess they’ll have to check for the name of residents like Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck and Snow White in Milwaukee to see where they live.
Last I heard, Snow White was shacking with seven dwarfs over on the south side of town...........
I would think MS Excel could do it in a matter of minutes.........
Thanks Waukesha. Again.
They should already have it. Under a previous admin, the entire state government in WI was instructed to use MS Office instead of various other products, such as Lotus, WorkPerfect, etc.
—In court, Kennedy testified that entering signatures into a database to look for duplicates could take eight extra weeks for his staff, and could cost $94,000 for software and outside help.—
IOW, it’s just too hard to check so we should just accept anything we get as valid.
Do they realize just how stupid/lazy/corrupt they sound?
All of a sudden they’re concerned about cost to the taxpayers?
Exactly. Not to mention how much it will cost to hold a recall election that would not be necessary if they fall short in getting the required number of valid signatures.
That's before we even begin to calculate the cost of replacing Walker with a Libtard should the recall take place and the marxists win.
That just is soooo un-PC
Snow White was cohabiting with seven gravitationally challenged individuals on the south side of town....
This is what I was thinking... i make my living with excel spreadsheets, and you can filter the data just about any damn way you please...
Obwious discrwimination against wabbits.
actually, it should take 8 weeks to do it, regardless... stating an ADDITIONAL 8 weeks is what makes him sound lazy and stupid....
for ammunition...
lets say one college dropout that cannot think clearly is inputting the data into an excel spreadsheet... since he/she is permanently distracted, we will assume a modest 1 minute 30 seconds to imput a name and address... this is 40 names per hour, or 320 per day, 1600 per week, or 12,800 in 8 weeks..... now we hire a 50 person crew to accomplish this task.... 12,800 times 50 is 640,000... you are done in eight weeks.
to filter the names and cross check, with excel, will take about 5 guys a week. total time is 9 weeks.
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