Friday, February 17, 2012
3:20 PM
Judge denies Walker request for more time to review recall petitions
A Dane County judge today rejected Gov. Scott Walker's request for an additional two weeks to review the recall petitions filed against him.
Walker had argued there was not sufficient time to complete his review with the original 20-day extension he had received. He argued the additional two weeks would have pushed his deadline to March 12, which he argued would still allow the GAB to finish its work on the petitions and decide whether to certify an election by the end of March. The GAB was previously given until March 19 to rule on the petitions.
But Judge Richard Niess said he'd already tripled the time Walker was allowed under state law to review the petitions.
In his filing, Walker said he was finding an error rate of between 10 percent and 20 percent, well short of the approximately 50 percent error rate needed to derail an election.
"There is little likelihood that there's going to be any legitimate challenge to the sufficiency of the petition," Niess said.
-- By Andy Szal
Labels: 2012_recall_elections
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