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Colorado faces new glitches on computers – New $39 million system doesn’t work

After a multimillion-dollar system failed last year, more problems surface with two other projects.

The state of Colorado has another multimillion-dollar computer mess on its hands.

A year after the state’s welfare-benefits computer system bogged down as soon as it was launched, lawmakers Wednesday discovered that the state Department of Labor and Employment had spent $39 million on a computer system that doesn’t work.

"That’s outrageous," said state Sen. Deanna Hanna, D-Lakewood, who cited the case as an example of lax oversight of state contracts by Republican Gov. Bill Owens’ administration.

The problems, revealed during a legislative review of the department’s budget request, surfaced on the same day that Secretary of State Gigi Dennis fired the same contractor – Accenture LLP – for its work on a $10.5 million voter-registration system.

By Mark P. Couch
Denver Post Staff Writer

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