Holding an elected position, as she does, protects her...she can't be fired. It makes one think...the only way she is able to float thru these anomalies may be based on the GOPer's having control over the State Legislature and Judiciary. So if she is caught manipulating the counts, whatever she says was the root cause of the miscount will be accepted and the matter forgotten. In other words, she has a get-out-of-jail card so she needn't worry about the State taking any actions against her.

Also, note too, if any other county in any other State had issues with their vote tabulating software, the software manufacturer would be raked over the coals to explain in technical details what occurred and why, why the elaborate data validation techniques embedded didn't catch the problem, and what they were going to do about it without transferring the cost back to the end-user. However, in the case of Nickolaus, her home-brewed application is immune from analysis and her position is independent from the State function that oversees the voting process to ensure anomalies, such as the one that just occurred, do not happen in real time. Odd too, the State doesn't require all counties to have the same, uniform vote tabulating software to ensure state-wide voter accuracy so anomolies, such as the many that has happened during Nickolaus tenure, do not occur with such regularity.

This is why so many people distrust electronic voting without paper trails to authenticate the number of votes for candidates. Too easy for someone with strong ideological concerns to manipulate the results in favor of their Party.

Additional Update:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/11/tammy-baldwin-eric-holder-wisco...

Still Another :

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/wis-officials-still-examining...