Wisconsin Senate Recall-a-palooza: 2012 Edition

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Harsdorf petition will be filed tomorrow

http://www.twincities.com/ci_17875694?nclick_check=1

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Two more opponents to Dem Senators: an attorney is running against Wirch, while the chair of the Lincoln County Board is running against Holperin. That means there are going to be primaries on the Republican side for all three Democratic seats.

Isn't the Primary more along the lines of a quasi runoff??  Top two vote getters on each side advance to another election four weeks later unless one of them cracks 50% the first time?

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The cavalcade of fake Democrats continues. A former Republican member of the assembly is running in Cowles' district.

When do the petitions to get on the ballot need to be in by?

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No idea, there's no information about it on the GAB website.

I thought I initially read something about ten days after the recall elections were ordered, but when I was looking through the GAB site, couldn't find it.

edit.  The deadline to file against the six GOP candidates is on Tuesday June 14th

http://ballotnews.org/2011/06/10/multiple-candidates-preparing-for-wisconsin-recall-in-all-9-senate-districts/

Not sure how long it would take to validate, but due to the low number of signatures required (400) I would guess its just a matter of days.  The deadline to submit signatures to get on the ballot for the races against the Democratic Senators for recall is likely the following week.

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Recalls of the three Democratic Senators are approved. All the Republican seats are apparently going to be up on July 12, but the Democratic seats are going to be up a week after, on July 19.

WTF?

They were scared of appearing partisan by disqualifying only the Democratic petitions, despite their being evidence of clear fraud.

I meant why two separate election dates a week apart?

The elections need to be held six weeks after certification, due to the amount of the recalls, the court cases, etc the court wasn't able to certify all of the elections together.  So they basically decided to certify the results on the six they had completed (against the GOP Senators) instead of continuing to put them on hold as they awaited the cases against the Dem Senators to be finished up.

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It was yesterday for the Republican recalls, presumably it will be next Tuesday for the Democratic recalls.

The deadline is next Tuesday for the Democratic recalls according to the GAB website.  Also any challenges to the petition signatures submitted Tuesday will need to be in by Friday, any challenges to the petitions turned in for next Tuesday will need to be in by next Friday.  Not sure on when any decisions on if those petitions are valid are not will be made.

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Where is the info about what areas are in coming from?

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Luther Olsen ended up only winning 52-48.

Probably why they took forever to call it, what was left was very Democratic, though obviously not enough.