There’s simply no question that Wisconsin voters deserve to know exactly what happened here, and that needs to come from the Department of Justice. I’m sick of these people stealing elections.
As many online geeks have pointed out, her story is complete bullshit. YOU DON’T HAVE TO HIT ‘SAVE’ WHEN YOU’RE WORKING IN ACCESS. It saves to the database automatically:
Wisconsinites should respond with equal skepticism to the news that Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus, a former Republican legislative staffer who worked for Prosser when he served as Assembly speaker and with Gov. Scott Walker when he was a GOP rising star, has found all the votes that justice needs to secure his re-election and that the governor needs to claim a “win” for his agenda.
If you live in Wisconsin, you can file a complaint against Nickolaus here.
There is no need for a conspiracy theory. The facts raise the questions that election observers are now asking.
The clerk, who has a history of secretive and erratic handling of election results, says she forgot to count the votes of Brookfield, the county’s second-largest city, in the total for Tuesday’s Supreme Court election.
Nickolaus claims that it was “human error” that caused her to “lose” the Brookfield results on her personal computer where she had secreted away the data. Yet, she apparently knew of the “mistake” for 29 hours before reporting it and then handed the information off to conservative bloggers and talk-radio personalities.
But what is most important to note are the numbers. With Walker’s candidate, Justice David Prosser, essentially tied with his independence-and-integrity challenger, Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg, it was all but certain that a recount would be required. And the final unofficial count, as tabulated Wednesday afternoon, put Kloppenburg ahead by several hundred votes, giving the challenger an advantage going into the count.
Then, two days after the election, Nickolaus found the 7,582 votes needed to put Prosser outside the zone of a state-funded official recount.
Former Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager says the developments require inquiry and explanation. She’s right.
The Kloppenburg campaign has demanded “a full explanation of how and why these 14,315 votes from an entire city were missed.” As part of the search for that explanation, the campaign plans to file open records requests for relevant documents.
The open records requests highlight concerns about the credibility of Nickolaus — whose secretive and suspicious activities led the Waukesha County Board’s executive committee to order an audit of the clerk’s use of election equipment and her controversial approaches to counting and tabulating votes.
That’s appropriate. But these requests do not go far enough.
Weeks ago, state Rep. Mark Pocan, the former co-chair of the legislative Joint Finance Committee, suggested that the lawless actions of Walker and his legislative consigliere, state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, had remade Wisconsin as a rogue state he dubbed “Fitzwalkerstan.”
After the snap 17-second tally that denied most Assembly Democrats a chance to vote on Walker’s anti-labor agenda, after the threats to deny Democratic state senators legislative voting rights, after the attempts to close the Capitol to the people of Wisconsin, after the violations of open meetings laws, after the flagrant violations of a judge’s temporary restraining order, the “Fitzwalkerstan” label seems increasingly apt. And the idea of leaving an inquiry into the Waukesha County scandal to authorities who bow to the governor is simply untenable.
The circumstance lends legitimacy to the call by the advocacy group Citizen Action of Wisconsin for “an immediate federal investigation and immediate impoundment of all computer equipment, ballots, and other relevant evidence needed to verify a fair vote count in Waukesha County.” Citizen Action says this investigation should include an accounting of all communications by “Kathy Nickolaus and anyone in the Waukesha clerk’s office with all outside actors, and all interested parties to the election dispute.”
It also demands a full recount, no matter what the ultimate margin of victory or defeat. Whether David Prosser or JoAnne Kloppenburg is elected, the only way that the high court will retain even a shred of credibility is if every ballot is recounted, every tabulation is reviewed and every citizen is certain that this election was legitimate.
Gee, when I’ve used Access, when I went to close a file, it always asked me to confirm saving or not savings any changes.
When you import data, either it successfully imports or it doesn’t. She claims she had to save it. You don’t.
PurpleGirl, I have extensive experience with Access and when Access asks you whether or not you want to “save” it is asking you if you’d like to save changes to the table if you, say, sorted the table. That is, do you want to leave the table sorted by date or a particular field? It has nothing to do with saving or not saving data that you entered into the table.
Each row is a record and once you move to the next row, the data you inputted is saved. Once you put a record in a table, and move to the next row, the record saves. Automatically.
Kathy Nickolaus a lying sack of shit.
Do you have to be a state resident to file a complaint?
(And, oh you betcha I filed mine, thank you.)