Wisconsin: Assembly Speaker Recall tossed out by Election Commission after signatures rejected for late collection

The second recall effort against Assembly Speaker Robin Vos failed after the Election Commission tossed out 188 additional signatures because they were collected after the 60th day of registration. The vote was 4-2.

The first pass through verified enough signatures the effor though there are significant questions about whether it works depending on the district, which will be answered by the Election Commission tomorrow. 

Because the districts were redrawn, there are real questions on how this will work. The petitioners needed 6850 under the old district, and they got only 6866. In the new district, they needed 7195. The Wisconsin Supreme Court refused to rule on which district counted. After this latest development, there were 6678 valids under the old district and 3807 under the new.

There were reports that the petitions include hundreds of duplicates, people signing after the deadline, as well as questionable signature collectors. No idea what happened with that complaint.

In the first effort, also led by former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, they handed in 11000. 

If it gets on the ballot, Vos could be facing the dual recall + reelection on the same day (if it is delayed from the August 6th date). Michigan Speaker Andy Dillion did that in 2008 (surviving both). 

Vos, a long-time fixture of this blog, is facing the recall over his refusal to support Trump during the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election results and the decision to drop impeachment efforts against Wisconsin's Election Commission Chair Meagan Wolfe as she has refused to push for the discredited claims of election fraud.

Vos almost lost in 2022 after refusing to back the election fraud claims. Gableman, who has previously targeted Vos (after Vos appointed him to head a committee looking at fraud), had called for his recall if he didn't support the impeachment of Wolfe. 

The Daily Kos has had some good explanations has a good explanation for the challenge of deciding what district Vos is a part of.