A Week before the Purge began an Internal Memo Revealed Serious Problems with Accenture
Nearly 50% of those on the list were Black
Well before they abruptly discarded it,
Florida election officials knew they had significant problems with a
database of felons they planned to use in removing voters from the
rolls. Just a week before they directed local election chiefs to begin
purging ineligible voters from the list of 48,000 convicted felons,
state officials documented two years of failures and breakdowns with
the $2.7 million contract with database vendor Accenture. A May 2
internal memo, ordered personally by Secretary of State Glenda Hood,
details a half dozen missed deadlines and broken promises, failed
software programs, repeated miscues and personnel problems. Two months
after the memo, with newspapers including The Herald detailing major
flaws with the felon database that could have disenfranchised
thousands, the state reversed course and told election chiefs not to
use the felon list. [more] and [more]
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