Democratic Waukesha Board Member on Vote Error: "it seems both shocking an somewhat appalling..."

This amazing retraction from the Democratic member of the Waukesha County Board adds another dimension to the vote count. Her comment was played repeatedly by conservative talkers. They really know how to make hay…

Wispolitics: The 80-year-old Dem member of the Waukesha County Board of Canvass who said the "numbers jibed" last week after the clerk announced a 14,000-vote error raised concerns today about the process. 

Ramona Kitzinger was widely quoted following a Thursday news conference in which Clerk Kathy Nickolaus blamed human error for failing to include votes from Brookfield … swung the election dramatically to Justice David Prosser by some 7,000 votes. 

A statement from Kitzinger was posted on the Waukesha County Dem Party's website this afternoon in which she said she was speaking up now because many had perceived her comments at Thursday's news conference as confirmation the numbers Nickolaus announced were valid and accurate. 
"In retrospect, it seems both shocking and somewhat appalling there was no mention of discovery of this 15,000 vote 'human error' that ultimately had the potential to tip the balance of an entire statewide election. How is this possible?" she said.  

Once the canvass was complete, she was pulled into a meeting with Nickolaus and the GOP member of the canvass board where … she was instructed she would not say anything at the news conference.

She said she remains "very, very confused" as to why the canvass was finished before she was told of the Brookfield error and that she told Nickolaus when called into the meeting that she is 80 and doesn't "understand anything about computers.""I was never shown anything that would verify Kathy’s statement about the missing vote, and with how events unfolded and people citing me as an authority on this now, I feel like I must speak up," she said.

jsonline: "Kathy didn't offer an explanation about why she didn't mention anything before Thursday afternoon's canvass completion, but showed us different tapes where numbers seemed to add up, though I have no idea where the numbers were coming from. I was not told of the magnitude of this error, just that she had made one. I was then instructed that I would not say anything at the news conference, and was actually surprised when I was asked questions by reporters." 

As Kitzinger was talking at the news conference, Nickolaus could be seen gently trying to move her back from the microphone after her initial statements.