Wisconsin Dems To Deliver Walker Recall Petitions Next Week

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Back in mid-December, the Dems announced that they had collected over 507,000 signatures in 30 days, getting very close to the legal threshold of just over 540,000 signatures in 60 days. (They are also working towards a goal of 720,000 total, in order to have an absolute buffer against disqualifications.) The party also told TPM at the time that this 507,000 figure takes into account also own efforts to weed out bad signatures.

The party has since said that beyond that mid-December update, they will be making no further official claims of signature counts before they actually turn in the papers.

Still, it does seem safe to say the Democrats would not have made the announcement without being confident of having the signatures. (It’s hard to imagine a big drop-off event that doesn’t have enough boxes.) So TPM asked Dem spokesman Graeme Zielinski: Is this announcement of the big petition-drop event tantamount to a confirmation that they do have the numbers?

“No, not at all. We believe that the whole process has been a victory for the people of Wisconsin because it’s focused in on what Scott Walker is doing. We’re not gonna comment on any number until the day-of,” said Zielinski.
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