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Everyone makes mistakes. EVERYONE.
Most mistakes are relatively private. They certainly don't require a press conference. Others happen on a huge stage.
Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus had to acknowledge a big, big mistake.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
David Prosser gained 7,582 votes in Waukesha County, after a major counting error of Brookfield results was detected, County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus announced in a stunning development this afternoon.
Nickolaus says the reason for the big change is that data transmitted from the City of Brookfield was imported but that she failed to save those results to the database. Brookfield cast 14,315 votes on April 5 -- 10,859 of those votes went to Prosser and 3,456 went to JoAnne Kloppenburg.
"The purpose of the canvass is to catch these kind of mistakes," Nickolaus said. She called it human error that is "common in this process." "I apologize," Nickolaus said.
What can you say about Nickolaus' mistake?
It was an error that was caught and corrected. That's the purpose of the canvassing process.
It's important to note that Ramona Kitzinger, the Democrat observer and Democrat vice chair of Waukesha county, had no objections whatsoever.
Ramona Kitzinger, the Democratic member of the county board of canvass, defended the process. She agreed with Nickolaus that the board "went over everything and made sure that all the numbers jived up, and they did."
"I'm the Democratic vice chair of Waukesha County, so I'm not going to stand here and tell you something that's not true," Kitzinger said.
Kudos to Kitzinger for doing the right thing and being honest rather than playing politics.
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UPDATE, April 11, 2011: I retract the kudos to Kitzinger.
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