Job for new bureau: statewide voter list (FL)

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http://www.sptimes.com/2004/11/23/State/Job_for_new_bureau__s.shtml

By LUCY MORGAN, St. Petersburg Times
Published November 23, 2004

TALLAHASSEE - Responding to a critical audit, Secretary of State Glenda Hood said Monday she will create a bureau to develop a statewide voter registration list in hopes of eliminating controversies that have plagued recent elections.

The new list will be designed to prevent anyone from voting in more than one place, and to remove names of dead people or felons who have not had their rights restored.

Hood said the development of that list will become the priority of the Bureau of Registration Services, which will handle all measures relating to the new Help America Vote Act approved by Congress after the 2000 election.

The changes were announced after a 50-page audit criticizing the way the Division of Elections managed a $2.2-million contract with Accenture, hired in 2001 to create a statewide voter registration list.

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