Offshore Company Captures Online Military Vote

Last year, while President Bush marshaled U.S. forces for the invasion of Iraq, the patriots at the Department of Defense awarded the contract for a new online voting system for the military... to an offshore company.

It gets worse.

Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) is the system and Accenture (formerly Anderson Consulting of Enron bankruptcy fame) is the company. And although Accenture has not been officially implicated in the Enron scandal, they have created a reputation of their own that is already raising eyebrows.
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What is it with the euphemism "offshore company"? Is France an offshore country? If a company is registered in a foreign country and doesn't pay U.S. taxes, aren't they a foreign company? And what is a foreign company doing running voting for U.S. citizens?