They are freaking over at Kos with supposed experts saying that Access always saves, you don’t actually hit “save” so she’s lying. They miss that she was importing Excel spreadsheets into Access. It’s easy to screw that up and not have the data added to the database.
Of course the big question is why in this day and age is a manual process using Access and Excel being used to count votes?
Maybe because she doesn’t trust the liberals not to screw around with a common database, so she feels more in control if she keeps it on an individual computer?
Having worked in state government before (not WI), it is easy to imagine some of the state workers having a bumper sticker which reads:
‘You can have my Access database when you can pry it out of my cold dead hands.’
“the big question is why in this day and age is a manual process using Access and Excel being used to count votes?”
Because the process doesn’t matter as long as it works for those in power. When things start to go against them, there is an outcry to “improve” the process. I often think about this when I see senior election officials sitting at the tables on election day, going thru their routine. The whole process seems very loose-y goose-y. We need a photo id for voting, with armed guards at the polling places to enforce it. The stakes are high. Why else do people spend millions of dollars to win elected office? In the “good old days”, voting machines could have votes already loaded before the polls even opened....