Review of state voter database requested - Role of Accenture Questioned
Friday, July 23, 2004 at 02:39PM
TheSpook
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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