#1) Anyone who uses M$ Access for mission critical work product is an idiot. Well, let me soften that... they may not BE an idiot... but they are, at that moment, partaking of idiocy.
#2) Election results go a bit beyond the typical description of "mission critical" as used in a workplace setting. This is not a recipe collection. The fact that this clerk is a single point of failure (no backups, no access or oversight by other tech staff) is unconscionable. The fact that these issues came up in a previous audit, and had not been fixed is also unconscionable. This may be corruption, or it may be incompetence.
#3) The Daily Kos guy is right about what he says, as far as it goes... but there is plenty of room for human error in the importation of data from one source to another. "I forgot to save" MAY be a non-techie's plain English description for "I 'linked' a data table when I should have imported" or some such.
Bottom line is, a recount means recounting the votes... not re-tabulating someone else's count of the votes that they saved in access. Are there paper vote slips, or direct records of vote tallies from polling machines? Recounting those will ignore any kind of shenanigans that this county clerk may or may not be pulling.
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#2) Election results go a bit beyond the typical description of "mission critical" as used in a workplace setting. This is not a recipe collection. The fact that this clerk is a single point of failure (no backups, no access or oversight by other tech staff) is unconscionable. The fact that these issues came up in a previous audit, and had not been fixed is also unconscionable. This may be corruption, or it may be incompetence.
#3) The Daily Kos guy is right about what he says, as far as it goes... but there is plenty of room for human error in the importation of data from one source to another. "I forgot to save" MAY be a non-techie's plain English description for "I 'linked' a data table when I should have imported" or some such.
Bottom line is, a recount means recounting the votes... not re-tabulating someone else's count of the votes that they saved in access. Are there paper vote slips, or direct records of vote tallies from polling machines? Recounting those will ignore any kind of shenanigans that this county clerk may or may not be pulling.