State Officials Say Holding Onto Signed Walker Recall Petitions Is Illegal
Local man says he's turning in the 150 signatures he collected saying that his plan to shred the ballots was wrong.
A group trying to sabotage efforts to recall Gov. Scott Walker sparked outrage from the Wisconsin Democratic Party. Officials with the Government Accountability Board also said collecting petitions and not turning them into the recall committees is illegal. Patch learned that a local man, who wished to remain anonymous, and at least two others, had collected signatures for the recall petition. In order to derail the recall effort, the unnamed source initially said he planned to shred them and then he said he was going to hold on to them; but now the source said he plans to turn them into the Government Accountability Board because he doesn’t think it’s the right thing to do to keep them. But state officials said the petitions need to be …
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Bob McBride
3:06 pm on Friday, November 25, 2011
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