Louisiana delays voting machine contract talks amid protest
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana is delaying contract negotiations with the winning bidder for the state's voting machine replacement work, while it considers a protest of the contract award.
Paula Tregre, director of the Office of State Procurement, has told Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin to refrain from conducting any contract talks until the outcome of the protest is settled.
One of the losing bidders for the voting machine contract, Election Systems and Software, filed the protest last week, objecting to the choice of Dominion Voting Systems for the multimillion-dollar deal.