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Barabak Columnist. Politics California California Recall Election. Follow Us twitter instagram email facebook. More From the Los Angeles Times. Opinion Nicholas Goldberg: Sen. In order to qualify the question for the ballot, recall proponents needed at least , valid signatures.
A special primary election took place on May 8, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett prevailed in a field of five named Democrats. As of this election, only two governors in U. David Brandt, a Walker supporter, submitted the first recall petition on November 4, , on behalf of the "Close Friends to Recall Walker" committee.
Democrats denounced the move as a Republican tactic. Once the petition was filed, Walker could legally begin collecting unlimited campaign donations for the recall election. United Wisconsin spokeswoman Meagan Mahaffey said organizers collected 50, signatures in the first 48 hours of the campaign. It's kind of like an insurance policy," he said.
Walker's campaign was in full swing once the effort began. So if there's that much outside influence, I'm going to take that seriously no matter what. On December 15, organizers announced they had collected over , signatures and had a new goal of , signatures, one-third of the votes cast in the gubernatorial election.
Organizers said they submitted more than one million signatures on January 17, The process to validate the signatures was expected to take several months. Under state law, the GAB initially had 31 days to determine if enough valid signatures were submitted to force a recall. However, with 1. Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess granted the extension on January 25, giving the board an additional 30 days and a deadline of March The state purchased software from Artsyl Technologies to help with the process.
Workers scanned the petitions into computers and the software read the names and converted them into type. A human operator verified each name, correcting any errors before it was entered into a database. The database could then be used to check for duplicate signatures. The petitions were processed in a secret location, but a webcam was set up to provide a live feed of the work. Under state law, Walker had only 10 days to challenge the validity of the petitions starting on January However, as GAB officials were not able to readily provide Walker with the signatures against him, Judge Niess extended the period to 30 days from when Walker received the full petitions.
This decision gave Walker until February 27 to file a challenge. The GAB delivered the petitions to Walker on January 27 and the day window to challenge began the next day.
On February 13, Walker's campaign said they would be unable to evaluate the signatures in time and asked the court for another two weeks. The court filing stated, "The time needed to search for duplicates, as well as to provide a factual basis for objections to more than , signatures, cannot be met within the existing time limits.
Walker asked the GAB to review a challenge of the signatures conducted by two tea party groups; however, GAB officials said state law did not allow them to consider challenges by third parties. GAB spokesman Reid Magney did say they would look at such challenges "for any potential fraud they uncover. But we cannot consider it as a challenge under state law. The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board GAB had originally announced it would post the scanned petitions to its website on January 30, but delayed that action after hearing concerns from a stalking victim and others who did not want their names released.
In the past, the GAB had treated petitions as public records. Bill Lueders, president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council , said the GAB should simply block the names of people with genuine safety concerns, such as victims of domestic violence, from the public, rather than blocking all the signatures.
Van Hollen found that, although they ran on the same ticket, a recall targeting the governor would not automatically include the lieutenant governor. In order to recall both officials, separate petitions would have to be submitted, with separate recall elections held.
For one, none of the Republican candidates who say they will challenge Newsom have the game-changing celebrity status of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
And most crucially, Newsom is far more popular than Davis was. Even most Democrats said they disapproved of him. Maslin said COVID will be the bottom-line issue for Newsom when voters go to the polls — the same issue that sparked the recall. Newsom seems to be on track to tout a post-pandemic future with reopened schools and recovering businesses, Maslin said, but with its unpredictable surges and variants, the pandemic could upend those expectations.
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