Reply #22: A "deep" investigation is likely to show that Nickolaus is incompetent...

[Imajika]

...but that won't help Kloppenburg as there is no way to erase the votes from Brookfield. This is not about new votes being discovered, only about initial reporting totals. This idiotic woman, Nickolaus, did not find a bag of new votes, a machine did not suddenly spit out a pile of Prosser ballots. All the canvass had to do with check the machine totals and re-add them to generate a full total. The new tally now included Brookfield and showed that Nickolaus had incorrectly reported the totals previously.

A full investigation will likely show that Nickolaus is a buffoon who should not have been elected to her position, but it won't make Brookfield's votes go away and therefore won't help Kloppenburg overcome Prosser's lead.

We can hope a similar error was made somewhere else that will benefit Kloppenburg, but short of that I don't see how she can overcome this and win.

Nate Silver analyzes this and comes to the conclusion that this was likely incompetence and not a conspiracy.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/vote-counting-error-in-wisconsin-points-to-incompetence-not-conspiracy/