State computer woes: Does Sam Nixon wish he’d stayed in the House of Delegates?

What a problem to have in your first few months. Media around the Commonwealth have been covering the outage of state computer servers for well over a week.

Among those state agencies affected the worst were DMV, who had trouble issuing license renewals, and the Department of Social Services, where briefly there was concern that benefits would be delayed. Also affected were the Departments of Taxation, Juvenile Justice, and Environmental Quality. The State Board of Elections and VITA (who runs the system!) were also on that list.

Now, according to today’s RTD, Senior lawmakers want an independent investigation of the problem. Governor McDonnell has also called for an “independent third party” to investigate.

Former Chesterfield Delegate Sam Nixon was appointed to be Chief Information Officer of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency just this past March. In part, Nixon was appointed because the VITA/Northrop Grumman partnership has been replete with problems from the beginning.

With the latest problems resting on his doorstep, one has to wonder if Nixon wouldn’t prefer to be back in his safely Republican house district.

Assuming, that is, that the State Board of Elections could find his records.

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