GAB Recall Database

The Government Accountability Board didn't want to do it, but a judge ruled that it must do its job.

So, the GAB is creating a database of recall signatures gathered in the Democrat/Big Labor/Leftist effort against Scott Walker.

The board and its mouthpieces in the Leftist media aren't happy about it. There's a whole lot of whining going on.

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

(Note: I got to this JSOnline article via a Twitter link posted by the MacIver Institute. Supposedly, that doesn't count against the 20-article limited access plan recently put in place by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.)

State elections officials plan to enter the names of all those who sign recall petitions into a new database -- a policy that will add to taxpayer costs and could delay when any recall elections would be held.

NOW, the cost to taxpayers matters???

GIVE ME A BREAK!

We have witnessed taxpayer dollars being pissed away directly because of the sore loser Leftists trying to overturn the results of the 2010 election. There's been the cost of the damage and extra police at the Capitol. There's been the cost of the ridiculous, pathetic JoAnne Kloppenburg recount.

A Scott Walker recall election has a price tag of $9 million!

Oh, but the cost of a database to assure that Wisconsin voters aren't being disenfranchised through fraud is a price too high.

CRAZY!

The decision, announced Thursday, comes after a ruling last week by Waukesha County Circuit Judge J. Mac Davis that said the state Government Accountability Board must take steps to search for duplicate names and fictitious names.

“It is a time-consuming and very costly process,” the board’s elections director, Nat Robinson, told the board.

He said the board is purchasing software that can electronically read the petitions and load the names into a database. Staffers will have to go over the database after the information is loaded because the software will misread some handwriting.

The Democratic groups trying to recall Gov. Scott Walker and other Republicans have asked an appeals court to stay Davis’ court order. But even if that happens, the board will continue with its plan to create the new database, said board attorney Mike Haas.

“Unless a court directs us otherwise, we’re going to proceed with the process…we’ve been planning,” he told the board.

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FLASHBACK, from MacIver News Service:

GAB’s Refusal to Create Recall Database a Choice, Not Based on State Law
State Legal Counsel: GAB Not Prohibited from Creating Online Database of Recall Petition Signatories