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Officials dispute reliability of Waukesha County clerk's election data system
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| Contributor | Homegrown Democrat |
| Last Edited | Homegrown Democrat Apr 07, 2011 05:51pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Laurel Walker |
| Media | Newspaper - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
| News Date | Friday, August 13, 2010 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Waukesha — Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus' decision to go it alone in how she collects and maintains election results has some county officials raising a red flag about the integrity of the system.
Nickolaus said she decided to take the election data collection and storage system off the county's computer network - and keep it on stand-alone personal computers accessible only in her office - for security reasons.
"What it gave me was good security of the elections from start to finish, without the ability of someone unauthorized to be involved," she said.
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."
Cummings stressed that the voting process at local polling places is not in question. However, municipal clerks send their election night results by dial-up modem to the county clerk, where they are tabulated and stored. That prompted Cummings' concerns. |
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