Election integrity timeline
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2008
June 2008
- June 6: Tennessee Voter Confidence Act signed into law; requires paper ballots and post-election audits
April 2008
- April 28: Supreme Court upholds Indiana voter ID law in Crawford vs. Marion County Board of Elections
February 2008
- early February: Michigan Law Review publishes online symposium on Recent Proposals for Electoral College Reform
January 2008
- late January: the study "Sarasota's Vanishing Votes (PDF format)" is issued by FloridaFairElections.org; claims that an examination of records from Florida ES&S iVotronic counties proves that machine malfunctions and software problems caused the Sarasota undervotes
- January 23: CO Gov. Bill Ritter Jr. says he will block proposal for mandatory voting by mail; see voting by mail only
- January 19: voting machine issues plague South Carolina Republican primary; some voters are turned away and asked to return later
- January 17: H.R. 5036-110, the Emergency Assistance for Secure Elections Act of 2008, is introduced by Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ); would reimburse jurisdictions for the costs incurred in conducting audits or hand counting of the results of the general elections for Federal office to be held in November 2008
- January 17: Maryland S.34 scheduled for hearing; requires that an applicant for voter registration submit proof of United States citizenship with the application and specifies the types of documents that establish proof of United States citizenship
- January 13: NJ becomes second state (after MD) to sign onto popular vote compact
- January 8: (PDF format) New Jersey General Assembly passes legislation that will require random, mandatory audits of election results designed to detect outcome-reversing miscounts
2003-2007
- Election integrity timeline 2007
- Election integrity timeline 2006
- Election integrity timeline 2005
- Election integrity timeline 2004
- Election integrity timeline 2003
2002
- November 5: John Sununu wins tightly-contested election over Governor Jeanne Shaheen for Senator from New Hampshire. James Tobin and other high-ranking Republicans are later convicted for election fraud for jamming the telephone line provided by Democrats for voters requesting rides to the polls.
- November 5: Chuck Hagel wins Nebraska race for U.S. Senate by 83% of the vote. ES&S machines tally 85% of the vote. (Hill News)
- November 5: Saxby Chambliss wins Georgia race for U.S. Senate by a 7-point lead, four days after a poll in which he was reported to trail by 5 points. Sonny Perdue wins Georgia race for governor by a 7-point lead, one month after a poll in which he was reported to trail by 9 points. (Thom Hartmann article (July 30, 2003)) (Two former Diebold consultants have claimed that an unvalidated software patch was installed just before the Georgia election; see the Diebold article.)
- October 29: The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) is signed into law.
- The movie Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election is released.
- March: Diebold sells voting machines to state of Georgia
- January: Diebold (founded 1859) buys Global Election Systems
2001
- GAO report "Elections: Statistical Analysis of Factors that Affected Uncounted Votes in the 2000..." (GAO)
- late 2000 -- early 2001: many analyses collected at Democrats.com find that if illegal votes had not been counted and legal votes had been counted, Gore would have won Florida
2000
- December 11: Bush v. Gore is heard by the Supreme Court
- December 9: John Bolton stops recount in Tallahassee (The Nation)
- December: Jurist (University of Pittsburgh law journal) timeline of the Florida recount
- December: CNN timeline of the Florida recount
- November: Memory cards replaced in voting machine in Volusia County, FL
- March 11: Arizona Democratic Party allows Internet voting in primary
1998
- Florida signs a $4 million contract with Database Technologies (DBT Online), which later merges into ChoicePoint, to obtain a central voter file listing those barred from voting. As of 2002, Florida is the only state which hires a private firm for these purposes. Prior to contracting with Database Technologies, Florida contracted with a smaller operator for $5,700 per year.
1996
- Chuck Hagel, former chairman of American Information Systems, which later merges with Election Systems and Software, Inc., wins a surprise upset in the Nebraska race for U.S. Senate against popular Ben Nelson (D). He does not reveal that he still owns a major interest in his former company. AIS machines tally an estimated 85% of the vote. (Source: Hill News)
Prior to 1996
External links
- SolarBus's "timeline" (actually a collection of links, many of which are not dated)
