Conservative Facebook Post to commit felony Election Fraud: "I will be taking all those (recall) petitions and shredding them..."

It seems the fantasy stories about protesters vandalizing the Capitol, union thugs ordering sheepish liberals around and violence committed against tea party members exercising their free speech rights wasn’t enough. Now these conservative agent provocateurs plan to use authoritarian rules of engagement to deceive and commit electoral fraud for “the greater good” I guess. Hell, they’re only trying to save a Republican nation.

Mother Jones’ Andy Kroll: A group of self-identified conservatives say they plan to sabotage the effort to recall Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker by burning and shredding recall petitions they've collected and misleading Wisconsinites about the recall process.

These plans, discussed in Facebook posts that were first reported by the blog PolitiScoop, entail posing as recall supporters and gathering signatures, only to later destroy the petitions. They also include telling Wisconsinites that they can only sign one recall petition (which is false—they can sign different petitions as long as they each correspond to a different organization). Will R. Jenkins says, "I'll be able to destroy 15-20K signatures." 

Reid Magney, a spokesman from Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board, says destroying or defacing an official recall petition would violate state law. (Here's the relevant statute.) Such a violation, he adds, would be a class I felony in Wisconsin, which carries a maximum fine of $10,000 and up to three-and-a-half years in jail.