德克萨斯州州参议员、民主党总检察长候选人内森·约翰逊宣布，如果当选，他计划调查德勤及其他州政府供应商合同。此前因一起软件错误导致选民登记处理失败，据他和一位共和党州议员称，至少影响了17.8万名德克萨斯州民。
Nathan Johnson, a Texas state senator and the Democratic candidate for attorney general, announced that, if elected, he plans to investigate Deloitte and other state vendor contracts in the wake of a software error that resulted in a failure to process voter registrations for what he and a Republican state lawmaker say were at least 178,000 Texans.
约翰逊在周五宣布这一消息前，接受了CNBC的独家专访。他指责德克萨斯州共和党人试图缩减州政府规模，并将核心职责外包给承包商。
Johnson, in an exclusive interview with CNBC ahead of the Friday announcement, blamed Texas Republicans for attempting to shrink the state government and outsource essential duties to contractors.
据称，德勤于2025年在公共安全部服务器上安装了一项软件更新，导致了该错误。直到9月才被发现，距离2026年中期选举仅剩一个多月。约翰逊表示，如果他成为总检察长，希望审查州政府职能外包的流程以及具体合同本身。“这绝不仅仅是选民登记问题，”这位达拉斯县民主党人说。
Deloitte allegedly installed a software update on the Department of Public Safety's servers in 2025 that led to the error, which was only caught in September with a little over a month to go before the 2026 midterm election If he becomes attorney general, Johnson said he wants to review the process for outsourcing state functions, as well as the individual contracts themselves. "I think the voter registration issue is absolutely not the whole story," the Dallas County Democrat said.
“这只是冰山一角，真正应该引起人们深思的是将核心州政府职能外包这一更大现象——像德克萨斯这样一个主要州政府，本应有能力自行处理这些职能。”自2019年起担任州参议员的约翰逊，将在竞选中对决共和党提名人、同样是州参议员的梅耶斯·米德尔顿，角逐接替共和党总检察长肯·帕克斯顿的职位。德克萨斯政治项目8月的一项民调显示，米德尔顿领先约翰逊5个百分点。该民调误差为正负2.83个百分点。德勤周五未立即回应置评请求。
"It's just the leading edge that really ought to cause people to look hard at this larger phenomenon of outsourcing core state functions that really a major government like Texas ought to be able to handle." Johnson, who has been in the state Senate since 2019, will face off against Republican nominee Mayes Middleton — who is also a state senator — in a bid to replace GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton An August poll from the Texas Politics Project showed Middleton up 5 percentage points on Johnson. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.83 percentage points. Deloitte did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Friday.
根据德克萨斯州立法预算委员会（该委员会维护一个州合同在线数据库）的数据，德勤与公共安全部有6份有效合同，总价值8446万美元。
According to the Texas Legislative Budget Board, which keeps an online database of state contracts, Deloitte has six active contracts with DPS at a total value of $84.46 million.
在整个州政府范围内，德勤与16个州机构共有30份有效合同，总有效价值达20.2亿美元。
Across the state government Deloitte has 30 active contracts with 16 state agencies totaling $2.02 billion in active value.
约翰逊的这一声明首先向美国消费者新闻与商业频道（CNBC）发布，此前一周多，《德克萨斯论坛报》的VoteBeat栏目报道称，公共安全部（DPS）的失误导致至少20万份选民登记申请未得到处理。当公共安全部在9月中旬、即该州10月5日选民登记截止日期前，将积压的所有登记申请一次性批量传输给州务卿办公室时，该办公室发现了这一错误，导致县级登记处不堪重负。
Johnson's announcement, shared first with CNBC, comes a little more than a week after The Texas Tribune VoteBeat reported that the DPS error caused at least 200,000 voter registration applications to go unprocessed. The Secretary of State's office flagged the error when DPS transmitted the entire backlog of registrations in one batch, flooding county registrars in mid-September, ahead of the state's Oct. 5 voter registration deadline.
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共和党人也对这一失误提出了批评。来自休斯顿地区的共和党籍德克萨斯州参议员保罗·贝滕科特周一在社交媒体上发文，将矛头指向了德勤公司和德克萨斯州州务卿。
Republicans have also criticized the blunder. Texas state Sen. Paul Bettencourt, a Republican from the Houston area, pointed to Deloitte and the Texas Secretary of State in a post to on Monday.
贝滕科特写道：“在典型的IT升级意外后果中，公共安全部的供应商德勤更新了选民登记系统，导致自动传输中断。在你们提问之前，我先说明：是的，德克萨斯州州务卿的工作人员本应发现选民登记缺失的问题，但他们没有！”
"In typical unintended IT upgrade consequences, the DPS vendor Deloitte updated the voter registration system, and those automatic transfers stopped coming thru, and before you ask, YES, the Texas Secretary of State personnel should have also caught the lack of Voter Registrations, but they didn't!" Bettencourt wrote.
德克萨斯州州务卿发言人艾丽西亚·皮尔斯表示，该办公室“正在提供拨款，以帮助抵消各县处理这些延迟登记时额外增加的人员成本”。皮尔斯称，这些登记申请已及时发送至各县，以确保选民能够参加11月3日的选举。
Alicia Pierce, a spokesperson for the Texas Secretary of State said the office "is providing grant funding to help offset the cost of additional personnel as counties process these delayed registrations." Pierce said the registrations were sent to counties in time for the Nov. 3 election.
这并非外部供应商首次出现工作失误。约翰逊表示，随着共和党人致力于精简政府，该州对外部供应商的依赖程度日益加深。
The voter registration issue is not the first botched job by an outside vendor, which Johnson said the state has come to rely on more as Republicans have worked to shrink the government.
2023年，德勤受聘负责管理德克萨斯能源基金——这是一项由纳税人出资、用于建设电力基础设施的州级项目。然而一年后，这家咨询公司的合同便遭到质疑：当时德勤选定了一家首席执行官曾因“挪用公款罪”被判刑的企业，作为德克萨斯能源基金贷款项目的入围候选企业。
In 2023, Deloitte has been asked to administer the Texas Energy Fund, a taxpayer-funded state program to build electric power infrastructure. But the consultant's contracts came under fire a year later after it chose a company whose CEO had been convicted of an "embezzlement scheme" as a finalist for a Texas Energy Fund loan program.
此次选民登记工作出现积压的消息，正值德克萨斯州中期选举前夕。此次选举中不乏全美最受瞩目的关键性竞选。
News of the voter registration backlog broke in the lead-up to Texas' midterm elections, which feature some of the most critical races in the country.
自1994年以来，民主党一直未能在德克萨斯州赢得州级选举。如今他们正全力开展竞选活动，力争在州长及参议院席位选举中获胜。民主党推举的参议院候选人、州众议员詹姆斯·塔拉里科在近期多项民调中均领先于对手帕克斯顿。《库克政治报告》则将这场竞选结果评定为“难分伯仲”。
与此同时，人们愈发担忧唐纳德·特朗普总统可能会质疑今年选举的结果，甚至动用国民警卫队或边境执法人员前往投票站以压制选票。
Democrats are hoping to win statewide in Texas for the first time since 1994, and have launched spirited campaigns for both governor and Senate. State Rep. James Talarico the Democratic nominee for Senate, has led Paxton in most recent polls. The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter rates the race a " toss up It also comes amid growing fears that President Donald Trump could question the results of this year's elections or try to suppress votes by deploying the National Guard or border agents to polling places.
约翰逊表示，他认为此次选民登记失误属于“实属无心的错误，但终究不可原谅”。他补充道：“如今关于选举公正性的讨论甚嚣尘上，但没有什么比得知近20万名申请投票的选民的登记信息迟迟未得到处理更能动摇选民信心了。”
Johnson said he believed the voter registration gaffe was a "genuine error, but not an excusable error." "There's a lot of talk about election integrity," Johnson said. "But I can't think of a thing that shakes voters' confidence much more than learning that almost 200,000 people applied to vote and didn't have their registrations processed."