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Department of State ends No Inc. contract on voter-roll replacement, says new vendor negotiated and replacement will precede next presidential election
Summary
The Department of State told the Appropriations Committee it terminated the prior vendor contract to modernize the statewide voter-management system, recovered more than $1 million, and is circulating a new vendor agreement the department said it will not launch during a presidential election cycle.
The Department of State told the Appropriations Committee it terminated the previous vendor contract for the state voter-registration system modernization and recovered more than $1 million in taxpayer funds, and that a negotiated replacement contract is now circulating for signatures.
“[T]he Commonwealth terminated the contract and clawed back more than a million dollars of taxpayer money that had been spent on that,” Secretary Al Schmidt said of the No Inc. contract tied to the Schor (sometimes termed “Shore”) system modernization. Committee members noted the vendor’s contract was large (about $10.7 million) and asked for specifics on returned funds; the department responded that…
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