Timeline of the Ward 10 voting scandal

October 2003: The city introduces rules allowing absent voters to mail in ballots. Voters may contact the city by phone, fax or over the Internet and the forms are mailed to them.

- Sept. 27, 2004: David Aftergood, whose wife, Margot, is running for alderman in Ward 10, rents Box 307 at a Mail Boxes Etc. outlet.

- Sept. 27: The city elections office receives the first of more than 1,200 electronic requests for mail-in ballots. Police track most of the requests to computers in one home in Abbeydale.

All the requests for mail-in ballots list the same return address: Box 307, 204, 1440 52nd St. N.E.

- Oct. 14: City election officials contact Calgary police and Alberta Municipal Affairs to report possible fraud with mail-in ballots for the Oct. 18 municipal election. Police officially launch an investigation two weeks later.

- Oct. 18: Margot Aftergood wins the Ward 10 aldermanic election by 138 votes, defeating incumbent Diane Danielson, who had served as alderman for six years.

- Oct. 20: A day after city officials reveal concerns about 1,266 rejected mail-in ballots, alderman-elect

Aftergood says her campaign team had requested the mail-in ballots. She maintains it was facilitating the vote and did nothing wrong.

- Oct. 22: Diane Danielson hires lawyer Daryl Fridhandler to try to get the Ward 10 election declared invalid. This leads to weeks of legal wrangling in advance of a judicial review by Court of Queen's Bench Justice Peter Martin on Nov. 29.

- Nov. 29: Moments before a judicial review is to begin, Aftergood resigns. The move halts the trial and forces a byelection in Ward 10, which Aftergood does not take part in.


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