Waukesha County Allowed Election Data Storage On Antiquated, Personal Computers

[iwishiwas]

Worth reading the entire blog. I read elsewhere that the computer in her office is an old windows 95, not connected to the internet.

Her arrogance is what worries me as well as her checkered background.


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Saturday, April 9, 2011
Waukesha County Allowed Election Data Storage On Antiquated, Personal Computers

Still an inexplicable finding about an authoritarian elections chief as reported eight months ago by Laurel Walker in the Journal Sentinel:

Waukesha — Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus' decision to go it alone in how she collects and maintains election results has some county officials raising a red flag about the integrity of the system.



Nickolaus and Cummings both said the problem stems from when Waukesha County moved its network from an old, outdated Novell server - the processing unit that multiple personal computers tap into for shared services - to a Microsoft platform. Among other things, the conversion saved the county $500,000 a year, Cummings said.

Nickolaus' election system, however, depended on the old platform, so technicians restored a lone Novell server for her use, without a backup....a major upgrade to the election system was recommended, but Nickolaus has said it's unnecessary.

In March, Nickolaus said, she moved the data off that server and into her own stand-alone system. She has a backup on a second computer, she said. In addition, she said, as she programs for elections, she does frequent backups during the day.

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[Botany]

1. Converting from one operating system to another .....

.... saves $500,000? What was the old one? 10 people in a room w/ abacuses, slide rules,
and an old fashion Franklin printing press?


What they don't have a Micro Center in Wisconsin?

[Shandris]

5. I consider it an act of providence they didn't try to put it in ENIAC...

...or a Difference Engine. :)

[louis-t]

2. Backward, outdated republicons using

backward, outdated equipment. Sounds about right.

[peacetalksforall]

4. That is really funny - they have proven that their direction is backwards.

They want to go back before-FDR, pre-taxation, pre Roe VS Wade, and with the Habeaus Corpus they have gone back to the 10th century with the Magna Carta? Regrettably, Obama locked it in - the biggest loss of rights ever).

Their backward list is long.

So while we want to go back to paper because there is NO QUALITY all-electronic voting machine - they have GONE BACK back to OLD personal COMPUTERS?

SHould they have trouble reconciling the Tea Pary R's with the suits-tie-bluish white hair-pearl R's and the smart axe/dressed wall streeter kids - ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS RENAME IT - THE BACKWARD PARTY. Read it here first - the BACKWARD PARTY.

I'm starting a list in all the ways they go backwards.

[SheilaT]

6. If they'd go all the way back to paper ballots,

now, that would not be so bad.

[xchrom]

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