Election integrity timeline 2004
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December 2004
- December 13: Legally binding recount begins in OH
- December 13: Electoral college delegates cast votes
- December 6: Clint Curtis signs affidavit testifying that Tom Feeney, future Speaker of the House of Representatives in Florida, asked Curtis to write a program for undetectably altering vote totals
- December 1: Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) announces in press release that he opposes state recount; see NM timeline
- December: Diebold settles for $2.6 million with attorney general of California for claim filed by Bev Harris against the company in November 2003
November 2004
- November 30: Kerry files in defense of Cobb and Badnarik
- November 11: Presidential candidates David Cobb (Green) and Michael Badnarik (Libertarian) announce intentions to file formal demand for recount in OH
- November 6: Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked dKos diary by stunster; representative of many post-election diaries
- November 5: Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo request hand recount in NH
- November 5: Danaher voting machine in Gahanna, Franklin County, OH, reports Bush receiving 4,258 votes; records show only 638 voters cast ballots
- November 2: Timeline of presidential election aftermath source: Wikipedia via Answers.com
- November 2: BlackBoxVoting files over 3000 public record requests
- November 2: Election Incident Reporting System (EIRS) records details of over 40,000 election queries and incidents
- November 2: Election Day
August 2004
- August 8: Bev Harris shows Howard Dean, on television (Topic A with Tina Brown), how to hack a Diebold voting machine
July 2004
- July 16: Ronnie Dugger's "How They Could Steal the Election This Time" posted by The Nation (August 16, 2004 issue)
- July 13: "The Computer Ate My Vote" Day
- July 7: Kim Alexander's survey of the e-voting issue delivered during a speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco
- July 1: BlackBoxVoting founded
June 2004
- June 25: Debut of the movie Fahrenheit 9/11, which begins with a reexamination of the 2000 presidential election.
May 2004
- May 5: EAC holds its first hearing on electronic voting machines
- May: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System released by Avi Rubin, Dan Wallach, et al. at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
- May: Eleven states have legislation banning paperless voting for the November election
February 2004
January 2004
- January 20: Study by Raba Technologies; see also Kim Zetter's analysis for Wired
- January: Bev Harris publishes Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century in bound form (Black Box Voting.org)
- January: VerifiedVoting.org incorporated
External links
- Wikipedia article on 2004 United States election voting controversies, Ohio
- Timeline of presidential election aftermath source: Wikipedia via Answers.com
