Review of state voter database requested - Role of Accenture Questioned

Secretary of State Glenda Hood is asking her inspector general to review the circumstances leading to the creation of the state's central voter database after the discovery that part of it - a list of possible felons to be purged from voter rolls - was flawed because it failed to include Hispanics. Records show that the department knew there would be problems matching Hispanics as early as 1997, but used the purge list anyway. In particular, Hood said she wants to know how the database was created, how information was acquired, how its parameters were determined "and the information available to its designers from its inception to the present." Florida's central voter database was designed by technology giant Accenture, which holds hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of other contracts with the state of Florida. Accenture's role was to design the software and create the infrastructure that the state used to hold voter-registration data from the county supervisors of elections, felon data from the Department of Law Enforcement and death data from the Department of Health. [more]

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