GAB finds Verify the Recall one big waste of Time.

Verify the Recall accomplished a few things; it placated the rabid paranoid conservative mind, and inserted itself into something that wasn't any of their business. They came across like a vigilante brown shirted enforcement agency. And a few of their tea party loons called people on the list at their home, women mostly, and intimidated them. Classy.

The scariest part; they've produced an enemies list, a blacklist, for future witch-hunts and vilification. It was almost funny watching Mitt Romney's campaign sugar daddy Frank Vandersloot whine that people are trying to smear him by digging into his background. Poor baby. He should try signing a Walker recall petition sometime.

According to the GAB:

jsonline: A tea party review of recall petitions did not use the proper standards for judging signatures, an attorney for the state's election agency reported Tuesday.

"The methodology they used just would not have worked for us and would have not been valid or legal under the law and administrative code that governs recall petitions," attorney Mike Haas told the Government Accountability Board. The accountability board did not rely on Verify the Recall's findings …  Haas said he wanted to look at their work after the fact to help decide if such information could be helpful in future recall efforts. But he said the tea party groups were overly strict in recommending throwing out signatures. For instance:
1. they did not count someone's name if they used a middle initial in their signature but spelled out their full middle name elsewhere on the petition.

2. The tea party concluded some people did not live in Wisconsin when in fact they did … the software they used did not recognize all Wisconsin municipalities.

3. The groups also identified as duplicates all people living at the same address with the same name, even though in many cases they were a parent and child who had the same name.

Verify the Recall is now claiming in some way that they brought “integrity and accountability” to the recall, when actually, they had nothing to do with it. It may have eased their minds, but only just a little. It's sad to have such a self-inflated image of themselves. 

Verify the Recall issued a statement "One major point that the GAB fails to mention in its analysis, however, is the fact that VTR fundamentally changed the nature of recall conversations in Wisconsin. ... Following VTR’s launch, recall conversations in Wisconsin changed from 'fraud and indifference' to 'integrity and accountability.'"