In the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Fitzwalkerstan, formerly Wisconsin, heroes collected over one million signatures to recall Fartfuhrer Walker. Out of state Koch suckers are now claiming there are so many invalid signatures, that there are not enough valid signatures left to support the recall, and the right-wing echo chamber has taken off with these bogus claims. True the Vote is better named Screw the Vote!
Madison – Claims by an out-of-state Tea Party group that the campaign to recall Governor Scott Walker is fraught with error do not stand up to even limited scrutiny.
Findings [InsaniTEA delinked] released this week from the Tea Party-led “Verify the Recall” effort allege that recall proponents fell short of the 540,000 signatures necessary to recall Governor Scott Walker. However, a cursory review of the pages they allege are erroneous actually include the information they claim is missing. Signatures the groups deem “ineligible” are very clearly legitimate. Some of the problems appear to arise from data entry errors on the part of True the Vote volunteers.
Verifying” the Recall
Since early February, groups involved in the "Verify the Recall" effort have been recruiting volunteers from around the country to enter the Wisconsin recall petitions into a massive online database. “Verify the Recall” is a joint project between the Houston-based nonprofit "True the Vote" (a project of the Texas Tea Party group King Street Patriots) and the Wisconsin Tea Party groups Grandsons of Liberty and We The People of the Republic.
On Tuesday, February 28, Governor Walker declined to officially challenge a single signature on the petitions calling for his recall, instead requesting that the Government Accountability Board incorporate the “Verify the Recall” findings. Walker only referred to the involvement of the Wisconsin groups in his filing with the Board, perhaps to downplay the involvement of the King Street Patriots and their True the Vote project, which have been accused of a variety of voter suppression tactics.
The “data” put forward by the groups involved in Verify the Recall has served as fodder for right-wing media outlets to claim the recall petition collection efforts were riddled with problems, if not outright fraud. Evidence suggests the claims don’t stand up to scrutiny… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <Truth-out>
I have little more than the introduction to this excellent article. I strongly urge you to click through to read the numerous examples of signatures these Koch suckers have claimed invalid.
Screw the Vote deemed one signature ineligible, because the voter added the state abbreviation WI to her zip code, for example.
The people at Screw the Vote forgot to obey the eleventh commandment:
Thou shalt not commit Teabuggery!
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“Thou shalt not commit Teabuggery!”
Don’t be a Tea-Baggie… Coffee for me please….
Me too!
“True the Vote — elections free and fair” — After reading the PR Watch article, True the Vote certainly has a different definition of ‘free and fair’ than I, and I am sure many others, have. Their reported actions are the same kind of tactics that are seen in 3rd world countries, minus the guns for now.
From PR Watch —
And Walker is involved with this group, which I consider to be un-American, anathema to the US Constitution and the ideals of the Founding Fathers! And who are these bozos to decide who is unproductive and un-American? I would say that True the Vote, Walker, the Koch’s and their ilk are un-American!
From TruthOut — ”
And the claim that True the Vote’s “involvement in the petition review is simply to help uphold the integrity of the process.” is completely bogus. Their involvement, as mandated by the Koch’s I’m sure if one could only find that definitive link, is to deep-six the recall. Given all the errors that TruthOut exposed in True the Vote’s database, the judge was right to deny the inclusion of the material. Not only is it inaccurate to be polite, it isn’t even complete.
I have to laugh at the end of the article when it refers to a signature of Donald Duck being “. . . clear that anyone signing Donald Duck is not a friend of the recall effort.” Well I worked with a woman whose ex-husband was ‘Donald J Duck’.
That’s it. Totally bogus and a dollar against a doughnut it’s bankrolled by the Kochs.
how are them tea bags hanging now? a little shriveled up?
Not so much as they will be after the recall election!