09-04-2011, 01:24 PM
Kathy Nickolaus admitted she's lying during her press conference. She and others who aren't very technically savvy just haven't realized it yet.
But before we get in to that lets get some history….
Until a couple months ago lets face it… Wisconsin wasn't even a thought in most of our minds. But then came new Republican Gov. Scott Walker and his plan to end Unions in the state. That move and the crazy tactics that followed it put Wisconsin on the political map and brought the Republican plan to destroy the American union to the common man's attention.
These moves produced a horrible taste in the mouths of typically conservative voters when it came to the Republican party in their state. The first signs of this were seen recently in their State Supreme Court election which was just held this past week. In that election 19 counties in that state who went Republican for Scott Walker last November FLIPPED and went for the Democrat in this race.
If that wasn't shocking enough what really should strike you is how this Democrat JoAnne Kloppenburg who before was an unknown came back to beat the incumbent GOP Justice David Prosser!
Or so we thought….
This brings us to yesterday when, Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus held a press conference to state that she had not included 10k+ votes in her initial election night tallys. Furthermore, the new count which includes an entire city Nickolaus "mistakenly" failed to count just happends to hold 7k+ votes for the GOP Justice Prosser swinging the election back to him in a big way.
Now, right out of the gate this situation sounds fishy. If you dig (not very deep) in to Kathy Nickolaus you will see a history of shady political connections and actions that makes the story ever more fishy. But, you know the truth is mistakes happen, human error happens and her questionable past and questionable timing aren't the red herring that proves her dishonesty (at this time).
What does PROVE Nickolaus' dishonesty is this statement during the press conference regarding the newly found votes:
Is it possible that her database was designed in such a way where she has to hit save? Yes. But it is highly, highly unlikely and would require a programmer to go out of his/her way to implement such a thing as it is so contrary to the way Access works.
I have worked in IT for over 16 years now. I have been an Access developer just as long. I have built countless custom Access Databases for a variety of businesses and Government Agencies. I have supported countless other existing Access databases including one which runs the County Board of Elections in an Upstate NY county. NONE of them require you save when you enter, import or change data.
If she had said she was working with a spreadsheet or word document or anything other than Access her lie would be believable. But when you stand up and say this error was caused by "human error" and not saving data in Access I call Shenanigans immediately.
We should not let these corrupt Rethug lies stand. I feel like we are back in Florida in 2000 all over again…. and we all know how that turned out.
But before we get in to that lets get some history….
Until a couple months ago lets face it… Wisconsin wasn't even a thought in most of our minds. But then came new Republican Gov. Scott Walker and his plan to end Unions in the state. That move and the crazy tactics that followed it put Wisconsin on the political map and brought the Republican plan to destroy the American union to the common man's attention.
These moves produced a horrible taste in the mouths of typically conservative voters when it came to the Republican party in their state. The first signs of this were seen recently in their State Supreme Court election which was just held this past week. In that election 19 counties in that state who went Republican for Scott Walker last November FLIPPED and went for the Democrat in this race.
If that wasn't shocking enough what really should strike you is how this Democrat JoAnne Kloppenburg who before was an unknown came back to beat the incumbent GOP Justice David Prosser!
Or so we thought….
This brings us to yesterday when, Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus held a press conference to state that she had not included 10k+ votes in her initial election night tallys. Furthermore, the new count which includes an entire city Nickolaus "mistakenly" failed to count just happends to hold 7k+ votes for the GOP Justice Prosser swinging the election back to him in a big way.
Now, right out of the gate this situation sounds fishy. If you dig (not very deep) in to Kathy Nickolaus you will see a history of shady political connections and actions that makes the story ever more fishy. But, you know the truth is mistakes happen, human error happens and her questionable past and questionable timing aren't the red herring that proves her dishonesty (at this time).
What does PROVE Nickolaus' dishonesty is this statement during the press conference regarding the newly found votes:
"this is an access database file that was on our regular system and it was just a matter of the save and it was just human error." (see video below this statement appears at about 4:28 in to the video)
The two things that jumped out to me in that statement are the words "Access Database" and "Save". Because you don't hit "Save" when working in an Access Database. The second you type anything in to a field in Access it is saved. Typically you couldn't even find a save button in an Access DB if you wanted to!Is it possible that her database was designed in such a way where she has to hit save? Yes. But it is highly, highly unlikely and would require a programmer to go out of his/her way to implement such a thing as it is so contrary to the way Access works.
I have worked in IT for over 16 years now. I have been an Access developer just as long. I have built countless custom Access Databases for a variety of businesses and Government Agencies. I have supported countless other existing Access databases including one which runs the County Board of Elections in an Upstate NY county. NONE of them require you save when you enter, import or change data.
If she had said she was working with a spreadsheet or word document or anything other than Access her lie would be believable. But when you stand up and say this error was caused by "human error" and not saving data in Access I call Shenanigans immediately.
We should not let these corrupt Rethug lies stand. I feel like we are back in Florida in 2000 all over again…. and we all know how that turned out.
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"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.