The good news, as I

Verified Atheist — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 12:28:39 +0000

In reply to Holding an elected position,

The good news, as I understand it, is that this time around there is a paper trail. There are actual paper ballots that can be counted. Although I am also suspicious of her, I am reminded of Hanlon's razor: never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. In this case perhaps you can replace stupidity by incompetence, or some combination of the two. Oh, and of course at least a soupçon of malice. Put another way, as difficult as it may be, I'm going to (mostly) assume for now that she's innocent of malice until proven guilty. As for incompetence, that boat has already sailed.

Holding an elected position,

Beetlejuice — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:21:13 +0000

In reply to Wisco county clerk whose homemade voting software found 14K votes for Tea Party judge is an old hand at illegal campaigning

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...

As Gomer Pyle would say

cmaukonen — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:25:00 +0000

In reply to Wisco county clerk whose homemade voting software found 14K votes for Tea Party judge is an old hand at illegal campaigning

As Gomer Pyle would say ...Surprise ! Surprise...

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The good news, as I

Holding an elected position,

As Gomer Pyle would say