Wyoming to Cancel Accenture Contract?
There are rumors circulating that Wyoming may be the most recent state to cancel its contract with Accenture for creating their statewide voter registration system.An anonymous tip was passed on to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign yesterday saying Wyoming was going to cancel. I also received an email from an out-of-state election official that someone from Accenture was searching “Wyoming cancels Accenture Contract” on a website for election administrators, seeing if the word was out yet.
Further, a call to election officials in Wyoming brought a response that something would be announced in the next few days.
If my count is right, that means of the four states that contracted with Accenture, only Wisconsin remains. Kansas, Colorado and Wyoming will have all told Accenture to take a walk.
Kevin Kennedy, what is your response? Is Wisconsin right and everyone else wrong? Or is it time to go to Plan B?
posted by Mark Pocan @ 10:53 AM
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Don't forget too that Accenture's military online voting project (SERVE) was cancelled. Only 2 states use Accenture; Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. PA was sold by election.com (before Accenture purchased them). This means that Accenture has really only managed to retain ONE state--Wisconsin. And it's not clear that they will ultimately be successful there. Especially if Accenture continues to blame everyone, and Kevin Kennedy continues to do the same.
Patience...this project is doomed to fail. Accenture's contract with DOD for US-VISIT obviously takes higher presidence than SVRS for WI. And SEB's blantly incompetence is clearly catching up with them. Just sit back and enjoy the "public hanging".
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