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The state Democratic Party is confirming that signatures will be filed today to recall state Sen. Randy Hopper (R-Fond du Lac).

The filing will take place Thursday afternoon at the offices of the Government Accountability Board in Madison, after a series of rallies in Oshkosh, Fond du Lac and Waupun, described in this Facebook page.

The rallies are similar to the one staged in La Crosse last Friday before signatures to recall Sen. Dan Kapanke (R-La Crosse) were filed in Madison.

A coordinator for the recall campaign, Scott Dillman, said Thursday morning that the recall campaign, with more than 1,000 volunteers, including hundreds of Department of Corrections employees in Hopper's prison-heavy district, had collected about 25,000 signatures, well over the number needed to force a recall election.

That number may be smaller now, he conceded, since the signatures were checked over for quality control.