Felon voter list cost state millions
The discredited database of `potential felons' comes out of taxpayer dollars. A database of almost 48,000 "potential felons," so riddled with errors that it had to be scrapped, cost state taxpayers nearly $2 million to compile and defend, officials said Tuesday. The state paid at least $1.8 million to Accenture, a private technology company with close ties to the Florida Republican Party, to help create the flawed list. Then it spent at least $125,000 in attorney fees to a GOP-linked law firm in a failed effort to keep the list secret, even though the state's chief lawyer, Attorney General Charlie Crist, said it was not worth defending. [more]