Kansas to Consolidate Voter Registration Databases

The state of Kansas is planning to consolidate its 105 disparate county voter registration databases into a single, statewide system.

Aradyme Corp. recently announced it has signed an agreement with Accenture to provide the data extraction, transformation and loading solution needed to consolidate Kansas' county voter registration databases. This solution is provided as part of Accenture's Election Services Management product.

According to the Help America Vote Act of 2002, each state is required to establish and maintain a single, central, uniform, official and interactive computerized statewide voter registration database defined, maintained, and administered at the state level that contains the name and registration information of every legally registered voter in the state. The Act also requires the appropriate state or local election official to update the data in this repository on a regular basis. In an effort to support these endeavors, the federal government will award more than three billion dollars to the 50 states through 2006. The deadline for states to implement a HAVA-compliant computerized statewide VR database is January 1, 2006.