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MADISON- The Government Accountability Board Friday completed delivery of all digital copies of recall petitions to Governor Walker's committee for their review.

In total, GAB staff scanned more than 152,300 petition pages for the Governor's recall, of which approximately 71,000 were delivered earlier this week, according to a press release issued by the GAB.  The GAB has not yet estimated the number of signatures on the petitions, as the signature review process is just beginning.
 
The GAB. is currently verifying the completeness and accuracy of scanned petition pages for Lt. Governor Kleefisch, and expects to complete that work sometime next week.

Earlier this week, Judge Richard Niess granted the Board's request for a 30-day extension to the 31-day statutory deadline for completing its review of the petitions, giving the Board a deadline of March 19.  Judge Niess also granted the four Senate incumbents a total of 20 days and the Governor and Lt. Governor a total of 30 days in which to file petition challenges.  The clock for challenges starts the day after the incumbent receives copies of his or her petitions.
 
The GAB reports that workers are now reviewing petition signatures for the four Senate recall petitions and the Governor's recall petitions.  Crews will be working from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. during the week and from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturdays.
 
Recall petition processing is happening at an undisclosed state facility in Madison.  For security reasons, the location of the processing center is not being released until all the scanned petition pages have been verified for completeness and accuracy.

The attorney for the recall committee has asked the GAB to stop verifying once they reach the necessary signatures for recalls to move forward.

That would mean about 540,000 signatures to trigger a recall election against Gov. Walker.  The attorney for the Senator said they did not know if they would challenge recall signatures.