Wis. Judge Rules For GOP On Walker Recall Procedures. There is now talk of hiring software vendor!

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5. Sending the signatures to be scanned actually makes some sense

I honestly would not be too concerned about fraud in the scanning process, the Democrats will have record of everything turned in and any attempt by the vendor to tamper with the signatures would be easily caught. I have worked with scan programs a great deal and I probably know more about them then 99% of the population because of my experience. They are very accurate on printed fields, handwritten fields however can be a challenge and there are presumably a lot of those being it is a petition. There are creative ways to make the scan process more accurate and efficient, but even with a scan program going through 1.5 million signatures is going to be a huge task. A single person could probably scan that many in just a few days, but the verification process will be very time consuming.

While a scan program makes sense it should be Walker that is responsible for verifying the ballots, not the state. I can only imagine the trouble he is going to make about each signature that makes it through that he doesn't think should have, if he was responsible he couldn't complain.