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Judge Rules GAB Responsible For Validating Recall Petition Signatures
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Jan 06, 2012 06:40pm |
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| Category | Legal Ruling |
| News Date | Thursday, January 5, 2012 09:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A Waukesha County judge ruled late Thursday afternoon that the Government Accountability Board should take steps to identify and strike duplicate and fictitious names on recall petitions.
“The Government Accountability Board is obligated to take such reasonable steps to identify and strike duplicate signatures," Judge Mac Davis said.
The Scott Walker campaign had filed a lawsuit challenging the way the GAB validates signatures on petitions to recall the governor.
The lawsuit wants the board to look for and eliminate duplicate signatures, illegible signatures and obviously fake names. The board countered that state law requires it to presume signatures are valid as long as they're properly dated and have Wisconsin addresses. It said the burden of challenging signatures is on the office-holder being targeted. |
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