Photo taken on 4/9 in front of the Wisc Capital:

[mod mom]

It was posted that the truck arrived empty (back wheels up) Anyone know what they are underway in destroying? Would love for a journalist to find this out.

[Lint Head]

1. Shredding is common in all major corporate and government offices.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Why was it there on Saturday?

Not enough time during the week to jigger the ballots & shred the paper trail?

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

13. Maybe bringing in outside services would disrupt normal business during normal business hours

Maybe they don't want regular employees and workers distracted or disprupted from their normal activities while a third party conducts their business. Alot of business schedule maintenence and other service during off-peak hours to minimize the impact on their operations. I don't think the shredding company cares as long as they get paid.

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[Jackpine Radical]

4. And everyone knows Saturday is shred day.

As to relating it to votes, ya gots ta take your cheap shots where ya finds them.

[mod mom]

12. crazy to suspect upstanding unbiased Nickolaus, isn't it:

As reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,

Sample ballots printed for Waukesha County executive special election give voted unintended advice: who to vote for. Published in several newspapers this week (October 14th,2005) sample ballots promoting Tuesday’s contest between James Dwyer and Dan Vrakas include a mark signaling a vote for Dwyer.

The red-faced county clerk Kathy Nickolaus said, the gaffe occurred when her office sent some newspapers the same sample ballots that had been marked to test the voting machines. “It was human error” she said…. The tainted sample ballots are being published in newspapers in Brookfield, Menomonee Falls, Mukwanago and Sussex. Along with both candidates’ names and detailed instruction on how to complete a ballot, there it is — a hand drawn solid line designating a vote for Dwyer.

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http://www.politicususa.com/en/wisconsin-marked-ballots


more:

Nickolaus is now under scrutiny for her ties to the state’s Republican party. She worked as a data analyst and computer specialist for the state’s Republican caucus for 13 years, a time window that included Prosser’s brief tenure as Assembly speaker in 1995 and 1996.

A 2002 corruption probe investigating state employees working on campaigns on state time led to indictments of five legislative leaders, but Nickolaus received immunity from prosecutors and resigned that same year.

As circuit clerk of the Waukesha County Board, she was criticized for not being cooperative with the county’s director of administration, resulting in an audit following the 2010 election that showed she failed to follow proper security and backup procedures and would not share passwords with her superiors.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0409/Vote-count-human-error-shadows-Wisconsin-Supreme-Court-election

Sorry but when you have a highly partisan elections official, who has been disciplined in the past and warned about her system...which includes a PERSONAL COMPUTER flags go up!

[Township75]

15. Are you the person I was referring to?

What do your 2 articles, one from 2005, have to do with the shredding truck?

[eowyn_of_rohan]

5. LOL - That is a Classic

It needs to be photoshopped by inserting some of the nefarious players

Great pic!

[Lefta Dissenter]

6. OK, this does raise an interesting issue

(cute picture, by the way)
One of my concerns is Nickolaus' control of the blank ballots before the elections and the voted ballots after the election. Where would she have dumped discarded ballots that she might have replaced with her own marked ones? Did she take them home to shred? I don't think she would have been dumb enough to just shred them at the office. Fresh fire in her fireplace?

Are any investigators looking through her trash and that of the people who work for her?

[Scuba]

7. Bingo

[eowyn_of_rohan]

9. YES! Where are those ballots? Waukesha Co uses all optical scan paper ballots

according to http://elections.state.wi.us/docview.asp?docid=2728&locid=47

I want someone to tell us that they are impounded and secure...

[Lefta Dissenter]

16. I believe that they are impounded

IN THE FRICKIN' COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE :banghead:

[eowyn_of_rohan]

17. That's what I thought I read but it is TOO LUDICROUS!!!!!!!!!!!!

IN other words ------------ F-ing NICKolAUS's office??

[eowyn_of_rohan]

18. Is Kloppenberg tough enough to insist someone from her camp is involved in the protection?

Puleeez

[VWolf]

8. Notice the redacted signage:

Paper * ??????? * Diskettes * Documents

Perhaps ??????? = "Ballots"

Enquiring minds want to know ...

[undeterred]

10. That's not what I would call "in front of the Capitol".

Its across the street. There are other businesses on the square that might use a shredding business, specifically banks and hotels.

I don't think the ballots ever get anywhere near the Capitol if thats what you're thinking.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

11. I can't tell what side of the Capitol this was taken from-do you know?

given all that is going on, it is alarming to see that parked next to the Capitol. Probably is there for a nearby business as others have stated, however, there ARE *4* polling places within 2 blocks of the Capitol. 3 are within 1 block. Parking is very difficult aroud the Capitol, with one way streets, no parking zones, etc., so hard to tell whose stuff they were collecting.

HOWEVER, *IF* this is on the south side, towards Lake Monona- it was parked almost directly in front of the Wisconsin State Elections Board office @ 17 W. Main St., Suite 310

All speculation I know. It is probably nothing - just makes us RIGHTFULLY paranoid ;)

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Votes?