Election integrity timeline 2003
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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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