8 Apr 2011 2:53 pm
About that Wisconsin Supreme Court election.....Republican Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus rocked Wisconsins Supreme Court election by claiming that she had suddenly found 14,315 lost votes in the most conservative county in the state. If these newly discovered votes are legitimate, they give incumbent conservative Justice David Prosser a more than 7,500 vote lead a number that almost exactly matches the margin he needs to avoid a recount at the states expense.Here are a few facts about Kathy Nickolaus:Prosser is Nickolaus Former Boss: Throughout the 1990s, Nickolaus worked for the Wisconsin State Assemblys Republican Caucus. For much of that time, Justice Prosser was the GOP Minority Leader and then the Speaker of the Assembly. So Prosser was Nickolaus boss.Nickolaus Received Immunity For Testimony On A Campaign Scandal: In 2001, the partisan caucuses in the state legislature were investigated for alleged illegal use of state resources to secretly run campaigns. Nickolaus received immunity in return for her testimony about her role in this scandal.Nickolaus Has Blown Vote Counts In The Past: Nickolaus once posted the wrong outcome in a local school board race, before her error was caught and the correct outcome was posted.Nickolaus Was Audited After She Moved Official Data To Her Personal Computers: Her countys Executive Committee ordered an audit of her office after they discovered that she removed the election results collection and tallying system from the county computer network . . . and installed it on standalone personal computers in her office.So an obviously partisan GOP operative, with a record of blowing vote counts, had already been audited once after she removed election results from the county computer network and installed them on standalone personal computers, and yet she was again using her personal computer to tally the votes, as this article in the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel shows.It states...."She discovered the error Wednesday when she transferred her data to a state computer program for the canvassers' review."Why was she tallying votes on her standalone personal computer, and not on the county network, even after she had already been audited for removing election results from the county computer network, and transferring them to her personal computer?This doesn't pass the smell test.Of course there will be no outcry from the Flying Monkeys, because in their world, cheating is okay as long as it benefits their side.If this situation had been reversed, and it was a Democrat who had done this, and it benefited another Dem, they'd take to the skies with their pointy little heads on fire.