Election integrity timeline 2006

July 22-25: NASS Conference (National Association of Secretaries of State)
July 20: CA case remanded back to state court
July 19: Joint Hearing - House Science Committee and House Administration Committee Voting Machines: Will the New Standards and Guidelines Help Prevent Future Problems? (witnesses: John Groh, ITAA; Dr. David Wagner, UC Berkeley; William Jeffrey, NIST; Linda Lamone, NASED)
July 17: Democrats challenge new Missouri voter ID law
July 14: DNC's Voting Rights Institute demands hand count of Busby/Bilbray ballots (see also dKos diary)
July 13: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Michael Papantonio bring a qui tam suit in US District Court alleging that Diebold and other electronic voting machine (EVM) companies fraudulently represented to state election boards and the federal government that their products were “unhackable”
July 13: Judge gives OK to question high-ranking Republicans over NH phone jamming (James Tobin case)
July 13: VoterGA brings lawsuit challenging electronic voting machines
July 13: House reauthorizes Voting Rights Act, 390-33
July 12: FSU College Democrats and Heartland PAC deliver "VOTES Declaration" to FL Sec. of State (follow-up to similar action in OH); source: diary, written by Tom Vilsack
July 12: Court stops photo ID in GA primary (see [1] for commentary by Spencer Overton)
July 2: Mexican election 2006

June 29: College Democrats in OH and Heartland PAC deliver "VOTES Declaration" to OH Sec. of State; source: diary, written by Tom Vilsack
June 28: Arizona Governor Napolitano signs SB 1557 into law making Arizona the 28th state to pass a VVPR requirement and 13th to mandate manual audits
June 28: CO voters seek court order to prevent the use of certain DREs: Conroy v. Dennis
June 27: Brennan Center Task Force June 2006 report ("The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World")
June 26: filing of Avante lawsuit
June 21: GOP stalls Voting Rights Act renewal
June 20: DNC's Voting Rights Institute and National Lawyers Council hold VRI election protection summit
June 12: U.S. League of Women Voters adopts resolution at Minneapolis Summer Convention that all voting systems should include voter-verifiable paper ballots which should be the official ballots and used in independent audits of election results.
June 8: EAC oversight hearings
June 6: GAO report "Elections: The Nation's Evolving Election System As Reflected in the November..." (GAO)
June 6: Special election in CA-50: Francine Busby (D) vs. Brian Bilbray (R). Many voting irregularities, especially unsupervised machine "sleepovers," prompt the CA Election Protection Coalition and other organizations to pass a Voters' Resolution of No Confidence
June 1: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. article "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" (Rolling Stone)

May 11: Harry Hursti, with Black Box Voting, announces a significant security flaw with Diebold’s AccuVote-TS and TSx voting systems. (see analysis by Avi Rubin and Ed Felten)

April 7: GAO report "Elections: Absentee Voting Assistance to Military..." (GAO)

January 5: Diebold admits in their "Response to Pennsylvania Request for Clarification on Basic Issues" that their OS, TS and TSX voting equipment uses interpreted code, in violation of the 1990 and 2002 FEC technical standards banning the use of interpreted code on memory cards (see EAC Voting Systems Standards/Guidelines, section 4.2.2)

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