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Walker, GOP sue state elections and ethics agency over recall effort
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Dec 15, 2011 07:45pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Jason Stein |
| Media | Newspaper - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
| News Date | Thursday, December 15, 2011 09:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Madison - Gov. Scott Walker's campaign and the director of the state Republican party sued the state's elections and ethics agency Thursday over its handling of the ongoing recall effort against the governor.
Also Thursday, the top GOP lawmaker in the Assembly said the state might need to replace the Government Accountability Board, saying it has strayed from its nonpartisan mission.
The lawsuit filed Thursday in Waukesha County Circuit Court asks a judge to order the accountability board to look for and eliminate duplicate signatures, clearly fake names like Mickey Mouse and illegible addresses. The lawsuit can be brought in the conservative county because of a change in state law earlier this year by Republican lawmakers and Walker that allowed lawsuits to be brought against the state outside of liberal Dane County, the seat of state government.
The lawsuit says allowing multiple signatures is a violation of the equal protection clauses of the state and U.S. constitutions. |
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