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True the Vote Projects Less Than Half of 1.5+ Million Walker Recall Petitions will be Eligible

True the Vote issued a press release yesterday detailing preliminary results of their recall analysis. While the unions will likely get the approximately 540,000 petitions they needed to force a recall vote against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, hundreds of thousands of submitted petitions had problems. Following is the breakdown:

Total Number of Pages Submitted

152,508

x 10 records/page (many left blank)

1,525,080

Actual Records

1,382,058

Blank Lines

557,469

Unique Records

819,233

Incomplete / Indecipherable Records

36,127

Sign Date Out of Range

14,763

Out of State

4718

Duplicate Signatures

5356

Total Ineligible Signatures

55,608

Total Signatures for Further Investigation*

228,940

Total Eligible Signatures based on

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Wisconsin Recall Fraud: Man Finds His Name 4 Times On Recall, Claims Ne Never Signed

On Wednesday, local watchdog Citizens for Responsible Government in Racine reported that Racine native Jeff Demet’s name was found four times on the petition to recall Republican State Senator Van Wanggaard. Finding the same signature four times is bad enough, but when Demet was contacted about the four signatures, he claims he never signed the Wanggaard recall petition at all!

This week, Ken Brown of CRG Racine was perusing the recall petitions for names he might recognize and came across his friend Jeff Demet.

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Recall Walker fever losing traction

Great news out of the Badger State as Governor Scott Walker’s approval numbers have been steadily increasing since spring, making a recall effort more difficult and perhaps unlikely as independents have swung over in large numbers to support the Republican governor.

This from Charlie Sykes at WTMJ:

Scott Walker’s approval numbers are continuing to improve, making the prospect of recalling him look much tougher for Democrats than it did during the spring.

Walker’s still not popular- 47% of voters approve of him, compared to 51% who disapprove. But those numbers represent continuing improvement over the course of the year. He hit his lowest point in PPP’s polling in May at 43/54. By August he’d improved to 45/53, and now that improvement has continued over the last couple months. Republicans continue to stand pretty uniformly behind Walker, and Democrats pretty uniformly against him. Where the shift is occurring is with independents. In May only 40% approved of him with 56% disapproving. Now those numbers are almost flipped with 52% approving to 44% who disapprove.

Walker’s not out of the woods by any means. 48% of voters in the state want to recall him, while 49% are opposed to such a move. But it’s not clear if Democrats will have a candidate strong enough to unseat Walker. The only one who beats him in a hypothetical recall is Russ Feingold. But Feingold’s already said he’s probably not going to run, and his margin over Walker is just 3 points at 49-46. In May Feingold led Walker 52-42 and in August Feingold had a 52-45 advantage. So even with their strongest possible candidate Democrats’ prospects against Walker are slipping. Read the rest