Yesterday we had a stunning announcement from Waukesha City Clerk Kathy Nickolaus that she had found 14,000 previously uncounted votes which gave a 7,000 vote lead to incumbent justice David Prosser. This isn’t the first time that Nickolaus has made news.
Nickolaus has come under scrutiny before.
Last year, county officials raised objections to her practice of storing election data off the county’s computer network, instead keeping it on computers in her office, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
The practice prevented the county’s information technology specialists from verifying that the system was secure from failing, the county’s director of administration said at the time. Auditors later recommended that Nickolaus improve security and backup procedures.
In 2001, Nickolaus was granted immunity to testify about her role as a computer analyst for the Assembly Republican Caucus, then under investigation — along with the Senate Republican Caucus and the Democratic caucuses for both houses — for using state resources to secretly run campaigns.