Kathy Nickolaus has stepped down from election duty

[HereSince1628]

Just heard on the 6 PM version of TMJ4 TV news


She's staying on as County Clerk but won't be involved in the upcoming recall related elections

[rfranklin]

1. The Follies of Kathy Nickolaus: A Quick Review

Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus called it "human error" when she realized she'd failed to properly record votes from Brookfield for Wisconsin Supreme Court. Many are more than willing to call it incompetence. I think I would call it something else.

Let's have a quick review and see how things look.

At a press conference last Thursday afternoon at approximately 5:40 PM, Central, Nickolaus explained that when tabulating the votes for Waukesha County, she forgot to hit the save button for the results from Brookfield. Thus nearly 15,000 votes were not counted, but with those votes finally properly recorded, incumbent Supreme Court Justice David Prosser jumps ahead by nearly 7500 votes over challenge JoAnne Kloppenburg.

-more-

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/12/966070/-The-Follies-of-Kathy-Nickolaus-A-Quick-Review

[hayrow1]

2. Not good enough

As the Waukesha County Clerk, she will still have access to, and an influence on, the May and June vote counting processes. Looks like a typical Repuke attempt to pretend to make a required change that is actually a complete fraud.

[elfin]

3. I agree

Hope her current position is on the Nov. ballot as well as County Clerk. Not likely, given that this is called "Walkersha" County .

So blatant, so Waukesha.

And yes, I live there.

[midnight]

6. I suppose via her private computer that has her special software she had the GAB write for her...

[EC]

4. How about her

computer? Hope they got rid of that too. But I'm sure the RNC has another county ready to go.

[HereSince1628]

5. Nothing said about her computer, or her computer programs. n/t

[mzteris]

7. She was ordered to step aside

Is what I read. Sorry don't know how to highlight copy paste on this notepad thing... Zut I read it on the defend Wisconsin fb page

[lutefisk]

8. Isn't it like Walker handing over some duties to Kleefisch?

. . . In a meeting this afternoon I presented two options to Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus, resignation, or designating the Deputy Clerk to run the upcoming recall election.

Kathy agreed to hand off her election duties to the Deputy County Clerk in order to avoid my public call for her resignation. . .

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/146353935.html

The deputy clerk still works under Nickolaus, so this temporary shift in duties is for appearances, mostly. They don't want to give people any more reasons to be pissed off at the Wisconsin GOP...

[LiberalFighter]

9. If the County Commissioners can't trust her to conduct this election

then how can she be trusted to conduct any election fairly? She really needs to resign.