Officials dispute reliability of Waukesha County clerk's election data system - JSOnline

An election reporting problem was a known possibility –see these August 2010 and January 2011  newspaper accounts.  

Might the County Clerk need to be recalled?  Both Republicans and Democrats should sign that petition.

 

Nonetheless, Director of Administration Norman A. Cummings said because Nickolaus has kept them out of the loop, the county's information technology specialists have not been able to verify Nickolaus' claim that the system is secure from failure.

"How does anybody else in the county know, except for her verbal word, that there are backups, and that the software she has out there is performing as it should?" he said. "There's no way I can assure that the election system is going to be fine for the next presidential election."

"This is the only audit in my 17 years where there's no compliance before (the audit reaches) the Executive Committee," he said at the start of Monday's audit review.

An audit of last fall's elections prompted Internal Audit Manager Lori Schubert to conclude that while the clerk's system generally complies with state and federal guidelines and accuracy of election totals was not  at issue, Nickolaus should improve security and backup procedures.

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