Recall votes set for May 8 and June 5

[hue]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/recall-votes-set-for-may-8-and-june-5-6k4iotb-142629636.html

Madison - If primaries are held, voters would go to the polls on June 5 for recall elections involving Gov. Scott Walker, the lieutenant governor and four Republican state senators, under an agreement signed by a judge on Wednesday.

The agreement also calls for primaries - or a general election in the event there are no primaries - to take place on May 8.

As part of the stipulation, attorneys for the recall committees, their recall targets and the Government Accountability Board agreed that the state elections agency should receive an extension to certify petitions until March 30.

The board's current deadline to certify petitions is March 19.

[hue]

1. Save the dates!! n/t

[hayrow1]

2. Get lots of absentee ballots ready for the UW students

[Poiuyt]

3. That leaves us precious little time for campaigning

I sure would be happier if a more well known candidate were running. I'm worried that Falk, et al, are not exactly household names in many parts of the state. This is going to be a tough fight and fundraising will be critical.

[midnight]

4. What is with all the extensions? Did the person Scott Walker rally to recall get all this careful

effort and extensions? Let's assume the whole state remembers Tom Barrett and he runs, and he wins..How many days does walker get to transfer over the Mansion?

[dragonlady]

5. As soon as the election is certified

and that could be pretty quick, the new governor takes office. There is no transition period as with the usual November to January gap.

[sybylla]

6. I know. We collected them in 60 days. Why can't they verify them in 60 days?

Idgits.

[Bonduel]

7. It always takes longer to verify

I could right 10 random sentences in less than 3 minutes, but it would take someone much longer to verify. What I don't understand is if Walker is not challenging the signatures then why does the GAB need to. Why can't we just move forward with the election. Maybe this delay actually helps the Dem nominee to campaign more.

[sybylla]

8. IIRC, it helps Walker and the senators in question raise unlimited contributions longer

Which is why it is bullshit. As a writer, I can certify that it takes far less time to edit/proof a sentence than it does to write it.

As you say, if no one is challenging them, why does the GAB care? Why aren't they assumed valid unless proven otherwise?

In ftruth, they only need to verify 540k, not every signature. So they can't even verify half of the signatures in the same time it took to collect them? They already have a database of registered voters. As someone who has done the work before, it should be easy-peasy to use this database to verify the validity of the signatures.