Reply #9: Shining light on company behind felon voter list

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ACCENTURE
Shining light on company behind felon voter list

By Chris Davis and Matthew Doig

Accenture, a $14 billion company that has made millions doing government jobs, was supposed to help Florida create a bulletproof felon voter list.
But state elections officials scrapped the list Saturday after newspaper reports reported a flaw that invalidated it.
The demise of the list, which was three years in the making, renews questions about Accenture's strong Republican ties and its business practices.
In fact, the company's resume is littered with connections to drama that the nation's Republican leadership would rather forget: Enron, Abu Ghraib and mysterious Saudi businessmen.
The company, once part of Enron's accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, jettisoned the Andersen name in 2001 to distance itself from scandal.
But like Enron, it hasn't escaped the image of a company willing to bend the rules....

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