Republicans and tea baggers busy searching for half a million bogus Wisconsin residents-here's help

[Scuba]

http://uppitywis.org/blogarticle/republicans-and-tea-baggers-busy-searching-half-million-bogus-wi

Now that there's a mini-industry booming in the conservative campaign to recall the recall, with bloggers, wingnut radio jockeys and even the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel getting in on the hunt for allegedly massive recall signature fraud, how on earth will this assembled multitude of nitwits, cynics and true believers manage to find nearly 600,000 faulty or suspicious signatures on the petitions submitted to recall Gov. Scott Walker?


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Here's a helpful tip, Republicans: Hire a ton of elementary school English teachers to review Wisconsin voter compliance with cursive, the formal writing style where the letters are joined. You see, GOP, a lot of Americans never bothered to adopt cursive, and others use it very, very badly. Indeed, you can hardly make out their highly stylized and dismissive signatures. Some poople even sign their names using block letters, and some others who are semi-illiterate use an X or other symbology.

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Whoops, one problem: Most pubilc school teachers who teach English -- trampled upon by Walker's major education cuts and anti-union givebacks -- hate Republicans. They won't be reliable in the anti-cursive campaign at all. Better find another strategy, GOP.

Hey, here's an idea: Just make shit up. That's easily good enough to fetch you a hundred thousand suspicious signatures, wouildn't you say? Also, move quickly from the specific to general. Blast-fax one example of a suspicious signature, however unsuspicious it may really be, and then quickly turn it into a huge generalization. Then simply file a lawsuit getting Judge Mac Davis or another GOP-friendly court to rule that the whole process is so badly, badly flawed it must be thrown out in its entirety, lest Scott Walker be disenfranchised for no good reason.

No doubt there are a few signature that won't stand up to rigorous inspection. The Republican hate-machine made sure their supporters were actively trying to discredit the recall. But there's no way they're going to find hundreds of thousands of "bad" signatures. Watching them try will be fun, although the smear tactics described in the article will no doubt be used.

[rfranklin]

1. They just can't win without some sleazy trick...

I think most Democrats and liberals would be embarassed and ashamed if they resorted to such subterfuge. No problem for "conservatives." It doesn't matter how you win as long as you come out on top.

[madrchsod]

2. finding enough bad sigs in that number is just about statistically impossible.

i`ve said this before -not all of the sigs are from democrats

[dragonlady]

3. They may find some fraudulent signatures

put there by Republicans signing for their dead mother-in-law or some such. What the signers would have forgotten is that by doing such a "dirty trick" they were not just setting up the recall campaign. They were committing a felony, and if the circumstances come out, they could lose their own right to vote. Oops.

[Jimbo S]

4. They'll find some

A few people being mischievous, some inadvertant missteps by circulators.

I say let them waste their time vetting the petitions. They won't find enough to prevent the recall, plus it will be egg on their face when it's made public most of the signees were on the up-and-up - a contradiction to their claim of petition fraud. If this main talking point can be discredited, it will cast a black light on their side.