Organizers of an effort to oust Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker say they are submitting 1 million petition signatures, almost double the number needed to force a recall election. 
 
 Their effort was spurred by anger over Walker's efforts last year to reduce the bargaining power of public sector unions. 
 
 The Wisconsin elections board now must verify that there are enough valid signatures, a process expected to take several months. 
 
 In a recall election, voters can remove an elected official before the end of his or her term. In Wisconsin, those forcing the recall generally put up a candidate to face the official in a special eleciton. 
 
 An election may not happen until June or later. 
 
 Organizers also turned in on Tuesday about 305,000 more signatures than needed to force a recall election of Walker's lieutenant governor. 

 • The Government Accountability Board has transported the boxes of recall petitions to a state-owned building in Madison. The location will not be made public until all the petitions have been scanned to digital files. Scanning is expected to take several days. 
 
 • The GAB has 31 days to validate the signatures, but officials have said they will be in court asking for an extension that could stretch well beyond 60 days. The GAB also will ask a judge that all of the recalls be held on the same day. 
 
 • Those wishing to challenge signatures have 10 days from when they receive copies of the recall signatures to file with the GAB. Republican Party spokesman Ben Sparks said the party has 5,000 volunteers ready to examine petitions. 
 
 • When election workers are finished verifying signatures and analyzing challenges, they will deliver a report to GAB board members. 
 
 • The board will then rule on the validity of the recalls. If it rules in favor, an election date will be set six weeks from that point. There is a high possibility of legal challenges, which could push the election date back even farther.
– Looks like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker will be facing a recall re-election. Leaders of the Democratic effort say they collected 1 million signatures for today's filing, about double the necessary amount. The figure represents about the same number of votes Walker received in the November 2010 election, notes the Wisconsin State Journal. The signatures will need to be verified by the state elections board, which could take months, reports AP. Earlier, the group trying to recall Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said it would easily make its quota as well. The same applies to the lieutenant governor and three other state senators, all of them Republicans. The recall efforts stem from Walker's move last year to essentially eliminate the collective bargaining rights of public workers.