MADISON - The board that oversees state elections is holding off on publishing all petitions signed to recall Gov. Scott Walker while it evaluates the privacy concerns of "individuals who have contacted us about posting the petitions online."
The announcement came late Monday afternoon, Jan. 30, on the day the Government Accountability Board (GAB) was promising last week it would upload scanned PDF files of recall petitions.
Signed petitions for the current recall of four state senators, as well as all petitions in the 2011 recalls, are already available to the public on the GAB website.
Recall organizers say more than 1 million people signed to recall Walker, almost double the needed 540,208 signatures. The board has until March 19 to determine if enough valid signatures were filed to force a recall.
"I do worry for people who have restraining orders," said Kay Krebs, who volunteered in Monroe to collect signatures to recall Walker. "I don't know that anyone thought that it would be publicized to the extent that it is."
The privacy concerns of some signers are already being taunted by a Facebook page called "I Will Be Getting Your Info Off the Recall Petition."
As of Monday night, the page had 35 members.
The announcement came late Monday afternoon, Jan. 30, on the day the Government Accountability Board (GAB) was promising last week it would upload scanned PDF files of recall petitions.
Signed petitions for the current recall of four state senators, as well as all petitions in the 2011 recalls, are already available to the public on the GAB website.
Recall organizers say more than 1 million people signed to recall Walker, almost double the needed 540,208 signatures. The board has until March 19 to determine if enough valid signatures were filed to force a recall.
"I do worry for people who have restraining orders," said Kay Krebs, who volunteered in Monroe to collect signatures to recall Walker. "I don't know that anyone thought that it would be publicized to the extent that it is."
The privacy concerns of some signers are already being taunted by a Facebook page called "I Will Be Getting Your Info Off the Recall Petition."
As of Monday night, the page had 35 members.