IBM Gets Contract to Clean AZ Voter Registration rolls

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IBM to Develop Arizona Voter Registration Management System
Friday January 13, 11:31 am ET

Election Systems & Software to Provide Secure, Centralized Database

PHOENIX, AZ--(MARKET WIRE)--Jan 13, 2006 -- IBM has received a $9.4-million contract to assist the State of Arizona in developing and implementing a statewide system to make voter registration more efficient, secure and accurate.

The new Voter Registration Arizona System II will use IBM xSeries 346 and 336 systems and Election Systems & Software's PowerProfile Enterprise Edition® voter registration and election management software with the goal of implementing a secure, centralized database of registered voters. The Web-based system will enable election officials in all Arizona counties to process registrations on a centralized system, identify and eliminate duplicate voter registrations and, when necessary, automatically transfer voters from county to county.

This new system is designed to meet the requirements of the national Help America Vote Act of 2002. It requires that by the 2006 elections, states must have a statewide, centralized voter registration database.

Arizona installed a phase-one project in January of 2004, meeting the early, basic requirements of HAVA while becoming one of the first states in the nation to do so.

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1. good for my state of arizona. and good for IBM. my husband

works for them.