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Accenture

Colorado Voter Registration System Contract

Date: 12/28/2005 (Date of Contract Termination)

Misconduct Type: Poor Contract Performance

Enforcement Agency: State/Local

Contracting Party: State/Local

Court Type: N/A

Amount: $2,000,000

Disposition: Restitution

Synopsis: In 2004, the Colorado secretary of the state awarded Accenture a contract to design a centralized voter registration system. According to the Rocky Mountain News, the system wasn't working as advertised, and a package of reworked software provided to the secretary of state's office "did not meet the state's expectations." The state and Accenture mutually agreed to terminate the contract in December 2005, and Accenture refunded $2 million for unfinished work. According to Accenture's response to POGO, "Accenture delivered a new release of the voter registration application within a timeframe that would’ve allowed Colorado to meet the HAVA deadline but it was never downloaded and tested by the state."