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

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7. A scan program wouldn't delay things, it would speed things up

I agree with you that Walker is trying to delay things, but it is the GAB who wants to scan the petitions not Walker. Scanning the petitions will be far more efficient than entering them entirely by hand, even with the scan program huge amounts of data will have to be hand entered, but it can at least speed the process up.

The spreadsheet is not that big of a concern, no matter the method of verification they would likely use a spreadsheet. While it may seem spreadsheets are easy to manipulate you have to remember that the Democratic Party has spreadsheets of their own along with photocopies of all the petitions. Any attempt to fraudulently manipulate it would be easily detected, they can not remove signatures they can only flag them and they have to give a valid reason as to why they should not be counted.