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Voting Machine Firm Files Protest [LA]
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Feb 25, 2005 03:52pm |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Feb 25, 2005 03:00pm |
| Description | BATON ROUGE, La. -- A company barred from bidding on a potential $49 million contract to provide Louisiana with new voting machines has filed a formal protest alleging that Secretary of State Fox McKeithen used an arbitrary, discriminatory and illegal process to select the three finalists allowed to bid.
Diebold Election System Inc. filed a formal challenge this week over the decision to disqualify it from submitting bids or proposals for the 5,000 new voting machines.
McKeithen's office excluded Diebold's bid because it said the company failed to meet six of the required 116 specifications. Diebold attorney John Landis said the three companies certified also failed to meet some of the 116 points. He said four of the requirements are identical to 2001 standards, which their machines met.
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