evidence: Also behind the backlog: DWD’s 1970s-era technology, a vulnerability that lawmakers in both parties have understood for decades but never bothered to fix. [...] Nygren told TMJ4 News and Wisconsin Watch that Republicans are open to funding a computer system upgrade, though he would not concede that the department’s failures were rooted in the old technology. Nygren said Evers was raising the issue as a "red herring" to distract from other mismanagement during the pandemic. [...] Evers in mid-September asked Frostman to resign as secretary, citing the claims backlog.