Friday, December 16, 2011

Governor Walker, GOP sue Wisconsin elections and ethics agency over recall effort

By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel

The accountability board has said it's up to challengers to point out problems like those and the board itself cannot automatically toss the signatures for those reasons.

"The plaintiffs are challenging the rules that have been established by statutes and administrative code, and which have been in place since the late 1980s. Since then, these rules have been used in every state and local recall petition effort against incumbents of both parties," accountability board director Kevin Kennedy said.

 

Read the rest of Mr. Stein article by clicking on the followinghttp://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/assembly-leader-wants-to-replace-state-elections-agency-5u3f2or-135669843.html