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.
http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/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Nickolaus and Cummings both said the problem stems from when Waukesha County moved its network from an old, outdated Novell server - the processing unit that multiple personal computers tap into for shared services - to a Microsoft platform.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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