Election integrity timeline 2003
From dKosopedia
- December 9: Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) founds the Election Technology Council (ETC) ETC's founding members are Advanced Voting Systems, Diebold, ES&S, Hart InterCivic, Sequoia, and Unilect
- December: Kevin Shelley commissions an audit and finds that none of the 17 California counties that used Diebold election machines in the last election was using software properly certified by state
- November 25: Diebold backs down from its takedown claims against "Why War?"
- November 21: Kevin Shelley, California's secretary of state, orders that all touch- screen voting machines include "an accessible voter verified paper audit trail"
- November 21: Ohio’s Compuware and InfoSentry reports find critical flaws in Diebold touchscreen voting machines
- November: Bev Harris files (ultimately successful) lawsuit against Diebold
- October 4: NIST conference on security threats to election systems
- October: Bev Harris publishes Black Box Voting on the web
- September 24: SAIC study finds serious flaws in Diebold voting machines (according to Freedom To Tinker, 2/3 of the report is redacted by the state of Maryland)
- September 5: Bev Harris publishes Diebold memos on her web site
- July 30: Diebold memos leaked to David Allen (also to Wired magazine)
- July 24: Johns Hopkins/Rice University study finds many security flaws in Diebold machines
- July 8: Bev Harris posts documents found on an insecure Diebold FTP server
- May 22: H.R.2239, the first proposed federal voter-verified paper ballot legislation, introduced by Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) bill eventually attracts 157 cosponsors but is never released from committee
- February 20: Farhad Manjoo article on Bev Harris in Salon entitled "Hacking Democracy" article states that Harris has been telling news organizations about voting machine problems for five months; title of article eventually becomes title of 2006 HBO special featuring Harris
- January 23: Bev Harris downloads Diebold programs and databases with votes
- January: David Dill issues Resolution on Electronic Voting
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