Voter Guide 2022: Howard County Board Of Education Races

HOWARD COUNTY, MD — Maryland's general election falls on Nov. 8, and there are dozens of positions on the ballot in Howard County, including seats on the board of education.

Polls will be open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. Marylanders must vote at their assigned polling place on Election Day.

Voters using a mail-in ballot can still return their ballot by mail, as long as it gets postmarked by Tuesday. Residents can also return their mail-in ballot to one of these drop boxes in their county or hand deliver it to their local board of elections by 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Here is everything you need to know about Tuesday's election in Howard County.

What District Am I In?

Voters can see which districts they live in by using this tool. That resource also lets Marylanders their:

• Review their voter registration record.
• Request a duplicate voter registration card.
• Learn where to vote.
• Find out their voting districts
• See their current state and federal representatives.
• Contact your local board of elections.
• Check the status of their mail-in or provisional ballot.
• View their sample ballot.

Who Is Running For School Board?

All the candidates are posted below.

We also included all the campaign websites listed on the Maryland State Board of Elections candidate portal.

Board of Education (two seats)

• Tudy Adler: adler4BOE.com
• Linfeng Chen: chen4boe.org
• Jacky McCoy
• Dan Newberger: votenewberger.com

A full list of every race in Maryland is posted at this link.

For any other questions, visit elections.maryland.gov.

Several jurisdictions also have local ballot questions. Howard County's single question, by petition, would:

• Create a law prohibiting the use of county resources for enforcing federal immigration and nationality laws, helping enforcement by collecting or sharing a person's information, asking a person about their citizenship, nationality or immigration status or the status of another person or sharing a person's status with another person.

When Will The Results Be Certified?

Election officials will not certify the final results for at least 10 days. Officials must wait for every mail-in and provisional ballot to come in.

Soon after polls close on Nov. 8, the Maryland State Board of Elections will release the jurisdiction-specific tallies from in-person early voting and mail-in ballots counted up to Election Day.

Officials will start releasing the Election Day vote counts over the following hours on election night.

All 24 jurisdictions will start releasing their early voting and Election Day tallies on Nov. 8. Only 10 will release the mail-in ballot results tallied before Election Day.

The Maryland Court of Appeals on Oct. 7 ruled that local election offices can opt to start counting mail-in ballots before Election Day. They cannot release these results until after polls close on Election Day, and they must continue accepting ballots until the statewide deadline of Nov. 18 at 10 a.m.

These jurisdictions plan to conduct pre-Election Day canvassing of mail-in ballots: Baltimore City and Allegany, Baltimore, Calvert, Frederick, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George's, Saint Mary's and Washington Counties.

Election officials will tally provisional ballots on Nov. 16. Mail-in ballots will be counted as they arrive until Nov. 18. Local boards cannot certify their results before Nov. 18.

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