I lived in a small city in Florida in the only leftist county in North Florida. There was a lot of the usual Dem cheating (union buses bringing in the folks from the large local mental hospital and “voting” them, for example). But the county clerk and elections folks actually took their jobs very seriously (probably because a lot of them were old-school conservative Floridians) and all the poll workers did, too. At that level, the system worked.
I think this woman’s slow reporting may have saved the election for Prosser, but I doubt that she planned it that way. She was just an old-school careful, ethical person doing her job.
Don't tell me, Alachua County?
She is also a known Republican activist — had been President of a local Republican club until recently. The reporters hammered her a little, without saying that. Rather, they tried to portray her as incompetent. I buy her explanation. The DB and the spreadsheets she used were all supplied by the election commission. One glitch was probably caused by Brookfield city officials. They had a spreadsheet to fill out and transmit electronically so that the Waukesha clerk could upload it to the state.
The cities were all told not to change the spreadsheet. The first time Brookfield sent theirs in they had added some columns. The Waukesha clerk phoned Brookfield and told them to remove the extra columns and re-transmit the spreadsheet. The problem seemed to occur at that point because the Waukesha clerk failed to “save” the spreadsheet before the 2nd transmittal and the information was lost and never reported to the AP.
The Waukesha clerk picked it up at the canvass because Brookfield came up all 0s.