User talk:Kevin baas~enwiki/timeline election controversy

November

Narration

On election night, some early exit poll data was leaked onto the internet, showing Kerry in the lead in the crucial state of Ohio. Word quickly spread on internet blogs. On Fox News, reporters noticed an unusual discrepancy between the exit polls and the vote count in Ohio. As the latest exit poll data released to the news agencies was increasingly contaminated with vote counts, the discrepancies vanished. Kerry ultimately conceded, but suspicions still spread on the internet, fueled by the exit poll discrepancy, unacceptably long lines, voter intimidation, and apparently partisan prior decisions by Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell.

On election night, Ralph Nader filed a lawsuit in Ohio seeking remedy to the long lines in Ohio primarily in places with a high percentage of racial minorities. Matt Damshroder testified in court that there was no way they could alleviate the obstacles to voting caused by long lines. Later, this was found to be false: the precincts had been requesting more voting machines, and were being denied these voting machines, even though the relevant counties and the state had unused voting machines that could have been distributed to them. [1]

Later in November, Edison-Mitofsky attempted to explain the exit poll - vote count discrepancies by saying that democrats were more receptive to being polled than republicans. Critics of this explanation decried this as a hypothesis that, even if taken at face value, explains only the systemic discrepancy and not the fact that the discrepancies were much higher in states with a high number of reported problems. [2]

Throughout the month, reports of election problems in Ohio continued to surface, including problems with voting machines, the counting of votes, missing ballots, and voter registrations. Problems also surfaced in Florida and, to a lesser extent, New Mexico and North Carolina.

Watchdog groups became alarmed at the number and severity of problems with the election, and began investigating, reporting, and demanding accountability.

Law

Judge orders officials to provide paper ballots - Long lines of voters in Franklin, Knox counties; Matthew Damschroder testifies that there is no way to shorten long lines in Franklin; Bush makes Election Day visit [3]
Ohio: Paper denied access at polls [4]
Bronis, Jason. "Ballot counting turns into legal fiasco." News 14 Charlotte. [5]
Ohio: AP. Democratic lawyers on "fact finding" mission in Ohio. [6]
N.H.: State election officials approve Nader recount [7]

Discoveries

Votes Lost in Cyberspace - DeShaunta Bullock, WCNT [8]
Florida: 37 votes may be lost in Palm Beach glitch - USA Today [9]
E-voting irregularities raise eyebrows, blood pressure [10]
Ohio, PA: Errors plague voting process [11]
Ohio: CNN. Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio [12]
Ohio: Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio Votes [13]
N.C.: Book, Sue. "Election problems due to a software glitch." Sun Journal (NC). [14]
Florida: Palm Beach Post article about their situation [15]
Ohio: Solvig, Erica. "Warren's vote tally walled off." The Enquirer (OH). [16]
22 voting machines have less-than-intact seals New York Newsday [17]
Florida: Recount officials in Volusia County, FL wary of fraud - [18]
Johnson, Mark. Winner so far: Confusion; agriculture, education races change as counties fix vote-tally errors. The Charlotte Observer. [19]
Ohio: Glitch Found in Ohio Counting [20]
Ohio: Voting Problems in Ohio Set Off an Alarm [21]
Equipment glitch delays Escambia County vote tally [22]
Officials, printers examine flaws that slowed vote count [23]
New Mexico: Voter fraud uncovered in New Mexico [24]
Carteret ballots are gone forever Daily News [25]
Florida: Wired. Florida E-Vote Fraud? Unlikely. [26]
Salon.com. Was the election stolen? The system is clearly broken. But there is no evidence that Bush won because of voter fraud. [27]
Ohio: Fitrakis, Bob. "And so the sorting and discarding of Kerry votes begins." The Free Press (OH). [28]
Ohio: Cincinnati Enquirer. Warren Co. defends lockdown decision, FBI denies warning officials of any special threat [29]
USA Today: Voting system failures [30]
Popular Science: Sorry, your vote has been: lost, hacked, miscast, recorded twice [31]
Major bugs found in Diebold vote systems (UPI) [32]
N.C.: Election Exposes Serious Flaws In North Carolina WRAL [33]
Ohio: 33,000 ballots lost in shuffle - Salt Lake Tribune, OH [34]

Statements

An official European Parliamentary Observation Mission report at the time of the election, issues raised include observer issues such as effect of HAVA, voter suppression, voter identification, and "on the day" confusion.
Infernalpress.com. Alleges that Republicans suppressed votes and voting machine companies committed fraud and tampered with election results, "How George W. Bush Won the 2004 Presidential Election" [35]
Ohio: Gwin, Harold. "Democrats' leader decries voting glitches." The Vindicator (OH). November 6, 2004. [36]
Ohio: Fitrakis, Bob. "None dare call it voter suppression and fraud." The Free Press (OH). [37]
Article in TThe Nation "A Stolen Election?"
Ohio: Cuyahoga board deflates vote suspicions Plain Dealer Reporter [38]
World reaction - This article written after the election summarises media viewpoints from many countries round the world.
New York Times. "Vote Fraud Theories, Spread by Blogs, Are Quickly Buried" [39]
Amid Charges of Vote Suppression, Activists Look for Larger Fraud [40]
Rumors of irregularities fuel debate on election [41]
Watchdogs demand vote accountability [42]

Unsorted

Nov. 14:

About Those Election Results "The New York Times" [43]
Ohio: Ohio voters tell of Election Day troubles at hearing [44]
Independent Media Indybay "Are USA Citizens Tired of Democracy?" Discusses election in US historic context.

Nov. 15:

Ohio: Ohio recount all but certain [45]
Pennsylvania: Dirty work at Philly polls [46]
MIT political scientist Charles Stewart answers questions about analysis of voting irregularities. (NPR audio)

Nov. 16:

Ohio: Document reveals Columbus, Ohio voters waited hours as election officials held back machines [47]
Florida: Pinellas ballot box sat ignored in office [48]
Governor's Race Takes 2 Twists [49]
Election Day gremlins: 16,000 judges but who's counting? [50]
Ohio: Questioning Ohio: No controversy this time? Think again. [51]
N.C.: N.C. judge refuses to halt recounts [52]
Ohio: Ohio To Go Through Statewide Vote Recount After All [53]
Popular Science : Hack the vote 2004 [54]

Nov. 17:

N.C.: A Florida Style Nightmare - North Carolina Citizens Demand Verified Voting Measures [55]
Ohio: Blackwell, J. Kenneth How Ohio pulled it off [56]
Shuster, David. "...The congressman demanding a Government Accountability Office investigation is not nuts" MSNBC.com [57]
Ohio: Ohio Finds Possible Double Votes, Counts [58]
N.C.: New NC statewide Attorney General election possible [59]
Ohio: Common Cause Joins Coalition Supporting Recount in Ohio [60]
Wired News: Vote Recount to Settle Doubts ? [61]
The Boston Globe : Media accused of ignoring election irregularities [62]

Nov. 18:

Ohio: Kucinich Supports Green Party Demand for Ohio Recount [63]
Ohio: Hearings on Ohio voting put 2004 election in doubt [64]
On Election 2004: Voting 'glitches' pose threat to democracy [65]
Ohio: Ohio Democratic Party seeks uniform ballot count [66]
N.C.: Lumberton, NC - Elections Board defies judge, sets new election [67]
CA: Panel Picked to Probe Alleged Voter Fraud [68]
ReDefeatBush Gathers Democracy Movement at LaFayette Park Friday at Noon in the BeAmerica.org Movement [69]
Ohio: Lucas County, OH - Prosecutor to check out 35 voters (and related events) [70]
Forida: Volusia County on lockdown [71]
Florida: UCB team announces their calculation of less than one permille probability that Florida's positive correlation between electronic voting machines and "votes" for Bush happened by chance[72][73][74]

Nov. 19

Florida: 'Stinking Evidence' of Possible Election Fraud Found in Florida [75]
Election Fraud 2004:Kerry, The Times, and the Democrats [76]
N.H.: N.H. Republican leader failed, and rightfully will be replaced [77]
N.H.: Recount New Hampshire [78]
N.H.: Recount held in 11 precincts [79]
N.H.: Nader-requested recount in N.H. moving slowly [80]

Nov. 20

Florida: UC Berkeley Research Team Sounds 'Smoke Alarm' for Florida E-Vote Count [81]
Florida: A copy of the working paper, raw data and other information used in the study described above [82]
Ohio: Lawyers to challenge election in Ohio [83] [84]
Media downplays voting-counting problems [85]
Kerry Calls for National Election Standards and Warns of Right Wing Assault on American Values [86] [87]
Ohio: Franklin County, Ohio voting machine assignments [88] [89]

Nov. 22

E-voting investigation requested [90]
[91] Labor movement article.

Nov. 23

Investigations into 2004 election irregularities move ahead [92]
Article in Consortium News discussing Ukraine and USA 2004 elections ("Big Media's Democracy Double Standards").

Nov. 24

E-voting faces new scrutiny [93]
Ohio and Florida: Allegations of vote fraud in Ohio, Florida: Was the 2004 presidential election stolen? [94]
GAO to investigate election complaints [95]
Ohio: Ohio judge denies recount request [96]
$200,000 REWARD for evidence of vote fraud in the presidential election [97], reported in media [98]
Florida: Volusia County Florida lawsuit alleges irregularities in 2004 election [99]

Nov. 25

Mr Powell on the Ukraine election: "We cannot accept this result as legitimate, because it does not meet international standards and because there has not been an investigation of the numerous and credible reports of fraud and abuse..." (front page, London Metro, UK, also see [100])
[101] detailed criminal history related to voting machine companies

Nov. 26

Ohio: Jesse Jackson plans Ohio election rally [102] and probe [103]
Wyoming: More votes than voters in Wyoming? [104] [105]

Nov. 27

Oklahoma: Oklahoma voting machines change tallies 70% of the way through counting [106] and [107]
Ohio: Suit seeks provisional ballots re-examined [108] [109]

Nov. 28

Panel will examine voting machines [110]
Florida: Florida Recounts predict Kerry win. [111] [112]

Nov. 29

Ohio: Re-vote, Not Recount, in Ohio [113]
Ohio: Jackson wants to set aside Bush's win in Ohio [114]
New Mexico, Nevada: Recounts Filed in New Mexico and Nevada [115]
Nebraska: 10,000 overvotes discovered[116]
Nevada: Judge to rule Tuesday on part of challenge to Bush victory in Nevada [117]
Keith Olbermann Interviews Kenneth Blackwell (Video)

Nov. 30

David Cobb: America needs a recount in Ohio [118]
Ohio: "Fight for Democracy" rally scheduled for Dec. 4th [119]
Ohio: Green Party Presidential Candidate Seeks Federal Court Jurisdiction in New Ohio Recount Case [120]
Ohio: Statement From the Green Party Presidential Campaign Concerning John Kerry's Intervention in Ohio Recount Court Case [121]
Ohio: Electors to be Chosen Before Recount [122]
Florida: Black Box Voting files a lawsuit against Palm Beach County, Florida Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore on Tuesday, accusing her of stonewalling requests for public records related to the Nov. 2 voting. [123] [124] [125] [126]
Ohio: Jesse Jackson article in Chicago Sun-times