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deminks

(11,006 posts)
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 12:43 PM Jul 2012

Nickolaus changed software before April election breakdown

Sometime after final testing of Waukesha County's election software - but before the April election - County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus mysteriously changed something in her office's computer programming, according to a consulting firm's report released Tuesday.

Only Nickolaus knows what she did. The consultants can't figure it out, and she's not talking.

But whatever she did, it caused a breakdown in reporting election results that will cost county taxpayers $256,300 to fix, the report says.

(snip)

http://www.jsonline.com/news/waukesha/nickolaus-changed-software-program-before-april-election-breakdown-vl62uqt-162003205.html?ipad=y

Stunning that no investigation will take place. She will not seek re-election, but as in the recall, I suspect she will be around to operate her 'special software'.

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monmouth

(21,078 posts)
1. And yet WI allowed this person to still participate in the process. First, she was not allowed,
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 12:45 PM
Jul 2012

then she was. Supposedly she was being watched, evidently she wasn't. Where are the Dems in all of this?

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
3. "Where are the Dems in all of this?"
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 12:57 PM
Jul 2012

Where were they in 2000 and 2004? I'm really at a loss as to why these election shenanigans are permitted to continue unabated.

After the debacle of Bush v Gore, I would have expected legislation would be introduced that would:

1) Ban all "super secret propriety codes" used in voting machines;
2) Eliminate the private profit motive in elections;
3) Make vote counting transparent.

But we still limp along with these kinds of stories occurring regularly. I don't understand it...

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
2. Let's see if I read what I read ...
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 12:52 PM
Jul 2012

She acknowledges that she made a change(s) in the program that caused reporting problems; but will not specify what change(s) she made?

Is vote tampering NOT a crime in Wisconsin? Why has the Wisconsin Attorney General not issued a subpoena compelling her to answer that specific question?

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
5. Isn't this a serious enough problem to take to court and put her under oath
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 01:03 PM
Jul 2012

so she has to answer these questions?

It's almost comical, if it was not so tragic, the way our election system works. I don't understand how she can simply refuse to say what she did.

 

Panasonic

(2,921 posts)
8. Time to indict her, and indict her hard
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 02:53 PM
Jul 2012

A felony that would not let her out of prison for the rest of her life.

librechik

(30,663 posts)
10. who needs elections when crony power is so implacable--and convenient!
Mon Jul 23, 2012, 03:52 PM
Jul 2012

not elected? who cares! Just go and act as if you were elected and no one will stop you! Bush and Cheney are their role modelsl

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