Heller's voter system plan misses deadline (NV SOS - Sequoia lover)

[NVMojo]

CARSON CITY - Secretary of State Dean Heller's $4.6 million plan to meet a federal deadline for a new voter registration system has failed.

In January 2005, Heller hired Covansys Inc. of Farmington Hills, Mich., to build a statewide computer registration system to comply with the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in time for the 2006 election.

The company, paid $1.2 million so far, missed every deadline. And a weeklong demonstration scheduled last week to convince county clerks and voter registrars that the system would be ready was cut short.

Heller suspended the contract with Covansys last week. The system was supposed to be ready to install Jan. 1. But Heller said, "It will take another six to eight weeks to make the necessary changes."

"We don't have six to eight weeks," Heller said. "There are too many design changes that the clerks wanted."

Nevada is one of about a dozen states that have failed to meet the federal deadline of Jan. 1 this year in having a statewide computer registration system that contains the name of every voter, according to electionline.org, a non-partisan, non-advocacy Web site that provides information on the progress of election reform.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-other/2006/feb/19/566623677.html

the guy is a henchman for the Bush administration and I'm sure there will be some benefit to the Repukes in this system not being up in time for the next election. They stole the Bush win in 2004 with Heller's Sequoia scam.

[Wilms]

1. Please point me to Nevada 2004 details if you can.

The funny results there, and in a few other states got lost in all the trauma/drama of OH and NM.

What was going on with Sequoia?