There have been scattered reports that some people have signed recall petitions against Walker more than once, either to inflate the number of signatures or because they were concerned that their original signature might not be properly counted.
Fitzgerald said state law needed to be changed to guard against that, but also criticized the accountability board for not coming out more strongly against that possibility. He also criticized the board for saying its staff would not automatically strike names in the recall petition such as “Mickey Mouse” and instead in some cases would just flag those names for Walker’s campaign to challenge.
But accountability board spokesman Reid Magney said the board was simply following the law and carrying out a process that would ultimately weed out bad signatures after Walker’s campaign called for striking them.
“There’s an adversarial process designed to weed out fake names as well as people who aren’t qualified to sign and duplicate signatures,” Magney said.