State investigating vote irregularities in Waukesha County going back 5 years

[ProfessionalLeftist]

The state's investigation into vote irregularities in Waukesha County will stretch back at least five years, the head of the Government Accountability Board said Thursday.

Questions over vote totals in Waukesha have lingered over the last week, after County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus announced she failed to report more than 14,000 votes from the city of Brookfield in initial vote totals.

The new total gave incumbent Supreme Court Justice David Prosser a lead of about 7,000 votes over challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg in the hotly contested state Supreme Court race. Official results in that race have not yet been announced.

Now questions have emerged over Nickolaus' published vote counts from as far back as the fall of 2006, when there were key statewide elections including races for governor and attorney general.

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[Vinnie From Indy]

1. k&r

[HereSince1628]

2. Cronies, especially incompetent cronies, should go far away

from the electoral process. I wouldn't normally say that for someone serving in another jusisdiction but it's really undeniable. Nickolaus should be banned from all jobs involving public elections.

She destroyed millions of Wisconsinite's confidence in our elections. There's no place for her within a system that requires competence, openness and non-partisanship.

[shraby]

3. I wouldn't call her incompetent..she accomplished what she

set out to do without being detected for at least 5 years. I'll bet Feingold did a whole lot better in this state too, if they investigated that election.

[HereSince1628]

4. I am not sure about that.

I'm going to need better evidence to suggest more than utter and complete incompetence. Utter incompetence is plenty bad enough. She apparently didn't know how or want to learn know how to include tallies from automated votes and hand entered votes into a published report summarizing election results.

Moreover, her clinging to her old 90's IBM Clone for official use makes it seem her IT knowledge may have ended with DOS and the 386 processor.

However, her desire to cover-over her incompetence has certainly made her seem conspiratorial. Many incompetents turn to others for help, she may have lent herself to being a willing tool of people who indeed were fully competent and prepared to screw with black-boxed software inside of the ballot readers.

[badtoworse]

5. What is the latest with Prosser / Kloppenburg?