April 04, 2007 08:04 AM UTC

Another state computer installation has bugs

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• by: Another skeptic

New software for vehicle registration has bugs.

It appears that the system was shut down to show up the Owens administration.

Were the bureaucrats doing their jobs while the software was being installed and tested?

Here’s a link to the Rocky’s story:

http://www.rockymoun…

The key graphs:

“CSTARS is one of at least five troubled computer systems the Ritter administration inherited,” Dreyer said.

He cited four others, which failed to pay road workers and welfare recipients accurately and failed to track unemployment benefits and voter registration.

Total value of the problem computer contracts: $317 million.

Dreyer said Ritter had heard of this issue during the campaign and hired chief information officer Mike Locatis to fix it.

“We share the frustrations around these failed computer systems and are working hard to solve these problems,” Dreyer said. Locatis is evaluating all of the state’s computer systems, he said.