Great news for Governor Scott Walker!
One million "Recall Walker" signatures?
No.
Is anyone surprised?
No.
"True the Vote" in conjunction with the "Verify the Recall" volunteers recently completed it's data input and analysis of Walker Recall Petition signatures. (The link to actual data can be found at: http://www.truethevote.org/reports/walker-exec-summary.pdf)
Here's a brief breakdown of the numbers:
Total number of signatures submitted was approximately 800,000.
Number of pages (of recall petitions) submitted: 152,508
Number of pages processed: undetermined (based on what was provided by the GAB)
Number of records processed: 1,382,058
Blank lines (on petition pages): 557,469
Unique records: 819,233
Incomplete/undecipherable records: 36,127
Signed w/date out of range: 14,763
Out of state: 4,718
Duplicate signatures: 5,356
TOTAL INELIGIBLE SIGNATURES: 55,606
TOTAL SIGNATURES FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION*: 228,940
TOTAL ELIGIBLE SIGNATURES based on data available: 534,685
(*signatures that were partially marked through, illegible, possibly false, mismatched or otherwise compromised)
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Governor Walker may ask the Government Accountability Board to accept the findings of the "True the Vote" analysis. Given the propensity for the GAB to go against any and all requests from the Republicans in favor of the unionistas and left, it is highly doubtful that the GAB will vote in favor of Walker. The Tea Party may also try to present their findings to the GAB, and again, any true consideration to review the hundreds of thousands of signature issues involving the recall petitions will probably be ignored.
However - what is really important here (besides the fact that the anti-Walker folks did not turn in anywhere near one million signatures to recall Walker) is that come election time, perhaps a wee bit over 500,000 people may vote for Kathleen Falk or whatever other Democrat ends up challenging Walker. It sure doesn't look like anywhere near one million-plus are rabid anti-Walker voters. Things are really looking up for Governor Walker and all the people in Wisconsin who elected him. This is a good day, folks, and I believe things will continue to get better. Thankfully, with Voter I.D. in place, Wisconsin people can rest assured that only Wisconsin residents will be voting - and their vote will count (one time only, too!).
And the good news continues on the national scene. U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) has announced she will not run again for the United States senate! Good riddance - Snowe has been nothing but a RINO and should have been booted long ago. She tends to vote with the Democrats anyhow, so her loss is no big deal. If a Democrat wins her seat, it's just an even exchange, nothing more. (Hopefully when her term is up, fellow RINO Susan Collins - from the same state as Snowe - will also not seek re-election.)
In addition, Obama's poll numbers continue to fall - even though he is trying his best to give Americans the false impression that the economy is really getting better. It is! Barry sez so! Obama has manipulated the unemployment/job numbers to support his false reality. Yet, most Americans are seeing through the spin - according to the recent Gallup reports! We are still at more than 9% unemployment. 13 million people are out of work. The jobs aren't there. The government is still prohibiting true job growth. The government is growing. Obama is waging the poor vs. rich war and it seems to be imploding on him. And no matter how Obama tries to lie and sugar-coat things, it isn't working. People got fooled once when they elected him. They won't get fooled again.
It appears that Wisconsin and the United States will be moving forward - in a positive direction come election time.
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88 Comments
jman99 - Feb 29, 2012 8:50 AM
"Only 50% of ~1,500,000 Records Submitted Will Be Eligible, Based on Current Data Trends
Total Signatures Submitted Will Be ~ 150,000 FEWER Than the Touted Million Signature Mark"
So they have not done any of the actual analysis of the signatures and are basing their press release only on "trending" which is not a real measure of anything.
So speaking of spin, your post is all spin and no substance, BECAUSE ALL OF THE SIGNATURES HAVE YET TO BE INPUTED AND VERIFIED.
I put that in caps because it is important to remember that.
Also, Just so there is no confusion because you seem to have used a shotgun approach, what is this blog really about?
1) Walker recall
2) Olympia Snowe
3) Obama's poll numbers
4) Unemployment in America
5) The government is still prohibiting true job growth. ( especially the republicans)
6) "poor vs. rich war"
7) "The government is growing."
8) all of the above
9) your hatred of liberals
10) someone gave Hemmer too much coffee this morning when she's ticked that the Catholic Santorum was swamped by Mormon Romney.
Please tell us as it is confusing and unfocused and we don't want to be "off topic" (whatever that might be ).
jman99 - Feb 29, 2012 9:09 AM
"True the Vote"
is run by Catherine Engelbrecht, and is one of Brietbarts "rising stars" of the extreme right wing. also a frequent guest on Fox News (no surprise there )
http://bigjournalism.com/author/cengelbrecht/
I would take anything this outfit says or claim with a large shaker of salt.
sharpaxe - Feb 29, 2012 10:36 AM
geno53151 - Feb 29, 2012 10:45 AM
The review Private Review Group has. Being retired, I have personally updated the database with over 1000 entries. We are keying in every name, address, zip code, municipality, and date signed. It is a task that takes much time and effort.
Data is being entered 3 times by different people, so a match of what is entered is done to eliminate errors that may occur when data is entered. Over 2 million entries will be made.
When I have entered data for Madison, at least 20% or more have illegible signatures. Example a dorm with room #'s (IE: 1,2 ,3 etc) on one petition may have 5 or 6 signatures that can not be read. I can see why these students need further schooling
As with the circulator in Racine, there is obvious fraud. Others will be identified and prosecuted. Petition 102835 is an example of circulator signing (same printing and handwritting using slant to try to disguise) names 1, 2, & 3.
Walkers people had only 30 days for their effort. they simply ran out oftime to do complete the effort.
referee33 - Feb 29, 2012 10:47 AM
referee33 - Feb 29, 2012 10:56 AM
jman99 - Feb 29, 2012 11:36 AM
You can try here:
http://www.truethevote.org/reports/walker-exec-summary.pdf
MGarber - Feb 29, 2012 12:16 PM
disconcerting that nine Scott Walker signatures were discovered. I don't know
why, ...".
Because you arent insane (well, not about this, at any rate)???
"A thinking Republican is a hard entity to find. "
I have a theory that in the process of pandering to a "base" that doesnt really exist, Romney loses to Obama in Nov, and if we dont erupt into a full blown culture war, revert back to a sane(r) 2 party system.
jhayett - Feb 29, 2012 12:31 PM
Geno, I too was one who verified. I found close to 30% discrepancies amongst different cities. Madison was the worst.
Common sense would dictate that if these liberal democrats knew they had honest and accurate reasons to recall Gov Walker, or any Gov for that matter, they could do so with honesty and little, if any, fraud. Tells a lot about liberals.
jman99 - Feb 29, 2012 12:36 PM
What facts Hayett? The PDF describes a trending and it establishes no facts at all.
"Common sense would dictate.." that you could actually figure that out.
Carl Hicks - Feb 29, 2012 1:26 PM
moderate-rep,27371/
Some are working to save the breed!
geno53151 - Feb 29, 2012 1:45 PM
Referee: The person charged with fraud is from Racines Recall effort of Senator Van Wanggard. The review of the petitions delayed the charges from being presented to Racines DA. There will be others after further review of all Senators Recall Petitions.
Until the Verify The Recall findings are allowed by the GAB to be presented, the Attorneys will be involved in that effort. Once the Walker recall is approved by the GAB, time can be devoted to persuing other fraudulent Petitions turned in by circulators. It is no joking matter as you make it out to be. The Racine person is facing a felony and a potential $90,000 fine and years in prison. If I were someone who knew I had turned in a fraudulent Petition, I would be very concerned about my future. I have identified some that should be looked at.
jhayett - Feb 29, 2012 1:55 PM
jhayett - Feb 29, 2012 1:58 PM
Like I said, Common sense would dictate that if these liberal democrats knew they had honest and accurate reasons to recall Gov Walker, or any Gov for that matter, they could do so with honesty and little, if any, fraud. Tells a lot about liberals.
jman99 - Feb 29, 2012 2:09 PM
No. That's an assumption not a fact. you see this statement could also be construed as fact by you definition:
"The facts are the countless fake and fraud signatures with the recall. And which group or party signed them? Right wing hard liners trying to invalidate the recall."
See how that works?
I would think that the second is more the case, but that is only my opinion.
jman99 - Feb 29, 2012 2:17 PM
"(Reuters) - The dollar leaped against the euro and yen on Wednesday as a confluence of factors, ranging from a European Central Bank cash infusion to diminished expectations of another asset-buying binge by the Federal Reserve, raised its appeal.
An array of positive U.S. data, which typically increases risk appetite, favored the greenback against the euro as it highlighted a growing disparity between the economies on both sides of the Atlantic.
The euro accelerated losses against the dollar to hit a near one-week low and the greenback rose sharply against the yen after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told a congressional panel the country's unemployment rate had fallen faster than expected.
Bernanke offered a tempered view of the U.S. economy and stopped short of signaling further Fed bond purchases, dashing the hopes of some traders in financial markets who were betting on more monetary stimulus."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/29/us-markets-forex-idUSTRE81Q0E520120229
WFB resident - Feb 29, 2012 2:32 PM
with the above numbers that jman brought in ! He saidf from 12.5 million ! The
actual number is around 800,000 ! That is a fact ! Go look it up but even in his
numbers jman said 50% are ineligible ! ! So with jmans numbers that come to
400,000 signatures ! Jman do you wish to change your comment again ? lol... Lets
now wait for the big surprise from the Walker campaign . I bet it will come out
around the time the election is finished . Any takers ? lol...
jman99 - Feb 29, 2012 2:43 PM
I posted no number on this blog.
What are you talking about?
jhayett - Feb 29, 2012 2:54 PM
Mucho - Feb 29, 2012 3:31 PM
The real fun in the recall effort is how diluted (deluded) the liberal votes nd $$ will be in WI. Walker is re-running against the same Union owned liberals he beat two years ago with more money and more motivated GOP support than 2 years ago and Obama is married to a failed stimulus, bad economy and radical healthcare policy. The Left will be out of gas ($5 per gallon) and lower than ever after November 2012.