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Big news: ES&S violated lobbying-disclosure rules in its bid for Philadelphia's voting-machine contract. files7.philadelphiavotes.com/announcements/…
City commissioners meeting tomorrow to decide whether to void the contract and start over.
ES&S owes a penalty of 10% of the $29 million contract.
City commissioners meeting tomorrow to decide whether to void the contract and start over.
ES&S owes a penalty of 10% of the $29 million contract.
One of ES&S's lobbying firms, Triad Strategies, donated to two Philly election-board candidates who won their reelection campaigns.
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Philadelphia's procurement commissioner told the election board that the city has already received 3,200 voting machines from ES&S and that voiding the contract would create severe delays for the Nov. local election and the May 2020 presidential primary. files7.philadelphiavotes.com/announcements/…
Worth underscoring: ES&S indirectly donated to two of the three people who will decide whether it gets to keep this contract.
Those donations (through the lobbyist PAC) were legal. It's the failure to disclose that was illegal.
America!
Those donations (through the lobbyist PAC) were legal. It's the failure to disclose that was illegal.
America!
The Philadelphia city controller is asking the election board to delay its decision on whether to void the contract until her investigation is complete. She sounds worried that they'll vote to keep it. …u3skase2jhb69-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/upl…
Sorry, it turns out that election board members running for re-election have to recuse during the year they're running (this year), so the two who got donations aren't part of the reconsideration process. They WERE part of the original decision, though.
