Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Capital funding would "increase efficiency, accuracy and timeliness of vote reporting," Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas says.
Waukesha County should budget funds next year to study and potentially upgrade its election equipment, Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas said Tuesday. Vrakas included $70,000 in the capital budget he plans to introduce Friday, according to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report. Vrakas said in a press release that he wants to study ways to better automate election results and avoid manual counting by municipalities. "Waukesha County is a rapidly growing County and in recent years the number of reporting units in the County has increased," Vrakas said. "This, coupled with the collecting, tallying and reporting vote totals, have made the process cumbersome. The goal is to automate and streamline the system as much as possible to prevent …
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Grant, Hammitt are victorious in board races while Kay wins judge election.
Waukesha County Board supervisor Janel Brandtjen pulled out an upset Tuesday when the she defeated longtime board chairman James Dwyer, according to unofficial election results. According to the Journal Sentinel, the two incumbents were pitted against one another in the District 5 race after district maps were redrawn as a result of the 2010 census. "I'm proud of the campaign I ran," Dwyer told the Journal Sentinal. The voters made their choice, he added, "and I'll learn to live with that real quick." Brandtjen, won the race with 57 percent of the vote. Brandtjen has been on the board since 2008. The marketing professional and business owner is a resident of Menomonee Falls. Menomonee Falls resident Jennifer Grant upended Michael Hyland…
Monday, July 18, 2011
Embattled clerk says she will not bring back the procedure because the state doesn't recommend it, even as county supervisors are question if it would have prevented the Supreme Court race controversy.
Even though she forgot to save and to post election results for one community that flipped the outcome of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Race in April, Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said Monday she still won't publish election-night results from individual municipalities on the county's website. Nickolaus said she won't post the results because it isn’t required by the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board. She had posted the results for individual municipalities in the past, but when pressed by Waukesha County Board supervisors Monday to bring the practice back, she said it’s not something she’s interested in doing. Nickolaus did change reporting results since the April election to include wards broken down by community but those…
Friday, July 15, 2011
Embattled Clerk Nickolaus in hot water again after her office loses crucial letter.
Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus – already under investigation for a snafu in reporting votes in the state Supreme Court election – is coming under fire from county leaders again after an error made by her staff nearly cost the county $1 million. The latest controversy surrounds a crucial letter that Waste Management Inc. sent to Nickolaus’ office in May regarding the expansion of a landfill the company operates in Menomonee Falls. The letter notifying the county of the expansion should have prompted the County Board to take action to join a local committee that will have oversight over the expansion. By joining the committee, the county also will receive $1 million from Waste Management over the next decade. However, that May 9 …
Jerry Person
9:32 am on Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Van Hollen would not be attacking the people of wisconsin if she did notcheat so he could win. 20,000 more votes were counted that cast in his election in his race. Van Hollen would be a looser in a civilized society. In a place that was not lawless. Wississippi. more ›