Wisconsin: Republicans latest effort to discredit the recall is discredited

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Great work by the bluecheddar team...

WARNING: Put Wisconsin First, a pro-Walker recall petition site and facebook page, does not tolerate facts

“Put Wisconsin First” are the folks responsible for an online database of Walker recall petition signers, searchable by zip code, by anyone with an Internet connection. This is not merely some guy with a web site; this is a formidable organization, capable of marshaling the resources necessary to manually type 800,000 names and addresses from the scanned petition sheets provided by the GAB (assuming they really did type in a total of 800,000 signatures, as claimed).

Substantial amounts of time and money were invested by Walker supporters to try to intimidate recall signers, and to use disinformation to discredit the petition itself.

Unfortunately, as is the case with many right-wing advocacy groups, they are determined to spread lies and confusion, and they aggressively renounce and suppress any facts that expose their deceit. For example, Put Wisconsin First claims that only 800,000 signatures were submitted, an unreasonably low number which is partly explained by their decision to only include signatures that are accompanied by a valid Wisconsin zip code. They also just assume that the name and other information must be legible in order for the signature to be valid.

The article documents the lies and disinformation being used by the right. "Put Wisconsin First" needs a lot of scrutiny.

Zip code is not required for a valid signature, although there is a field for it on the petition form.

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1. Clearly they are clueless out-of-staters

But facts never matter to GOPpies. Don't make the mistake of thinking they care what the rules are regarding zip codes and legible sigs. They just want to be able to argue that the whole process is invalid in whatever shape they can fashion the lie.