December 2004 in the United States

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Deaths in December

Ongoing events

  • Conflict in Iraq
  • 2004 Puerto Rico governor election recount
  • 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy
  • Washington gubernatorial election, 2004

Ongoing trials

December 30, 2004

December 29, 2004

December 28, 2004

December 27, 2004

  • 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy: Moss v. Bush: Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell fights a subpoena in a lawsuit contesting the presidential election. (AP) (AP) (freepress)

December 24, 2004

December 23, 2004

December 19, 2004

December 18, 2004

  • 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy:
    • Voting machine manufacturer Diebold Election Systems will pay a $2.6 million settlement to the State of California over the lawsuit filed by the state in September alleging that Diebold was not truthful about the security and reliability of its electronic voting machines.
    • In a sharp change from their traditional role, members of the U.S. Electoral College have filed a protest of the official election results, one even casting his electoral vote "provisionally" upon a revote. They have called for a member of the senate to protest the election results on January 6th. , ,
  • In Topeka, Kansas, days-old baby Victoria Jo Stinnett is reunited with her father after her mother was allegedly strangled to death by Lisa Montgomery. Montgomery then cut the baby from her mother's womb and abducted the child. The AMBER Alert system is credited with assisting her safe recovery. (CNN)

December 17, 2004

December 16, 2004

December 15, 2004

December 14, 2004

  • The leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshal, tells the BBC's Newsnight programme that his group has had secret contacts with the United States and the European Union. (BBC)
  • The U.S. admits that more prisoners have died in American custody in Afghanistan than it has previously acknowledged. (BBC)

December 13, 2004

December 12, 2004

  • According to the Washington Post the Bush administration used wire taps to intercept a number of phone conversations of Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency in hope of finding information that would help remove ElBaradei from his post. (CNN) (The Washington Post)
  • 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy:
    • The U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary will be holding a congressional forum in Columbus concerning new evidence of election irregularities and fraud in Ohio, the issue of Ohio electors meeting while recounts and litigation are pending, and to discuss legislative and other responses to the problems, on Dec. 13. (pdf)
    • The Civil Rights Coalition schedules a protest for Dec. 18, demanding a re-vote in "areas where substantive disenfranchisement took place" and the prosecution of officials involved in "election fraud." (Civil Rights Coalition)

December 11, 2004

December 10, 2004

December 9, 2004

December 8, 2004

December 7, 2004

  • The United States Supreme Court heard arguments on the constitutionality of state laws that block merchants from shipping wine across state lines. Affected businesses and consumers claim that such laws are invalid under the commerce clause, long held to ban a state's discrimination against interstate commerce.
  • High-profile Democratic New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer announces his campaign for Governor in 2006. (Yahoo!)
  • 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy:
  • The U.S. military discusses plans for mandatory visibly worn ID badges, forced labor, DNA testing, and retina scans at "citizen processing centers" for all residents of the rebellious Iraqi city of Fallujah, saying they plan to make it a model city for the whole of Iraq. (Boston Globe)

December 6, 2004

December 5, 2004

  • 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy:
    • Hundreds gather at the Ohio statehouse to demand a recount of votes, citing fraud that took votes from John Kerry and gave them to George W. Bush. (AP)
    • A lawsuit challenging the Volusia County, Florida election is thrown out for being a day late. The suit claims paperwork is missing from 59 of Volusia's 179 precincts and that precinct printouts show different numbers. (AP)
  • More than 20 are killed and many more injured in a series of attacks on Iraqis working for the United States by Iraqi insurgents today. (ABC)(BBC)(Reuters)

December 3, 2004

December 2, 2004

December 1, 2004

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