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Jeff Sadow: Louisiana's secretary of state race a hotbed of intrigue thanks to voting machines fiasco
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO Oct 30, 2018 07:06pm |
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| News Date | Sunday, October 21, 2018 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Leave it to Louisiana politics to transform the most apolitical statewide office into a hotbed of gubernatorial intrigue.
Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin’s chances to retain his job in a special election Nov. 6 suffered a blow this month when the state’s chief procurement officer Paula Tregre rescinded a controversial $95 million contract his office awarded. The deal would have launched replacement of voting machine systems statewide.
Jumping on the news, Republican Ardoin’s opponents insinuated that he had acted to steer the contract to invalidated winner Dominion Voting Systems. In reality, the ruling faults him on technicalities. The office he headed filed incomplete requirements for bidding, and the deciding panel he appointed failed to notice the winning bid contained a piece of equipment without required national certification. It essentially was identical to one that did.
In other words, redoing the process without these problems almost certainly would declare DVS the winner going away, as happened previously. But that would mean defeat for the chief plaintiff, Election Systems & Software, which has close connections to Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards. |
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