Here’s the Friday open comments post.
Kathy Nickolaus, Waukesha County’s clerk, has made a name for herself – as either one of Wisconsin’s biggest fraudsters or as one of our biggest incompetents. Her announcement of a supposed error in the April election isn’t the first mistake she’s made. Nickolaus is now the subject of a state investigation into her work over the last five years:
Additional questions surfaced after Nickolaus posted a note to the clerk’s website this week explaining discrepancies between the total ballots cast in several elections and the votes for particular offices. In many cases, the number of votes totaled more than the number of ballots cast.
See, State investigating vote irregularities in Waukesha County going back 5 years.
So – regardless of what an investigation finds – should Nickolaus resign now based on what happened in April?
Should she stay or should she go now?
The predictable and nearly inevitable Clash video –
The use of pseudonyms and anonymous postings is, of course, fine. Although the comments template has a space for a name, email address, and website, those who want to leave a field blank can do so. Comments will be moderated, against profanity or trolls. Otherwise, have at it.
Update – Today is a day of glitches with comments, including one pesky troll who slipped past my attention for a bit. He’s now been dispatched. All is well again, I think. Readers can vote in the poll, comment, or both.
I’ll keep the post open through Sunday afternoon.
There’s no proof that she committed a crime. She should stay unless someone can prove she broke the law. quitting should be for politicians who are charged with crimes. Even big mistakes are different.
Quit now!
It’s been a glitch or two, and a gremlin or two, today at FW. Moderation’s properly set again. Looking to see if everything’s okay, I see that I forgot to answer my own question. Seldom over nearly four years, and thousands of posts, has an official seemed to me deserving of immediate resignation.
Kathy Nickolaus falls in that small, unworthy category – she should resign now, on the basis of evident incompetency. One doesn’t need to determine fraud; she’s unfit even absent criminal conduct.
Waukesha’s suddenly “found” 7,500 Prosser votes are an item for Ripley’s “Believe It or Else (sic).” Are we voting in Wisconsin, or Nigeria..? If that County Clerk had any sense of decency and propriety, she would have resigned by now. “Stupid is as stupid does.”