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Mail-In Ballot Canvassing Started This Morning. What Does That Mean?
Local elections offices reported receiving a total of 213,019 mail ballots by election night; additional ballots can still arrive by mail.
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Local elections offices reported receiving a total of 213,019 mail ballots by election night; additional ballots can still arrive by mail.
House Majority Leader Eric Luedtke (D-Montgomery) accused Republicans of nominating “their most extreme ticket ever."
“There are too many people here,” Del. Jheanelle Wilkins (D-Montgomery) said as she left the polling place at Takoma Park Elementary School.
“An Attorney General can either be a champion for progress or a defender of the status quo,” said Brown, the state's former lt. governor.
She was projected as winner of the contest by the Associated Press on Tuesday night, and later declared victory in a series of tweets.
For the second election in a row, Democrats Marc Elrich and David Blair appear headed toward a prolonged vote-count.
Republicans likely nominated women in the 2nd and 3rd districts, but the Democratic incumbents are favored to win re-election.
What will voter turnout look like? (and more)
Voters will select nominees for all statewide offices — governor, comptroller, attorney general, and U.S. Senate — along with House seats.
According to Data for Progress, San Francisco-based, Elrich and Blair are tied at 34 percent, with Councilmember Riemer at 20 percent.
“Last year, Geraldine Valentino Smith voted with Republicans to keep more budgetary power in the Governor's Office" -- among series of texts
Here's our look at a dozen legislators who could be knocked off in their primaries, listed by numerical order of their legislative district:
Dear Maryland voters: Should you have confidence in casting your ballot and having it counted correctly?
The head of Maryland's Legislative Black Caucus welcomed it, saying it will lead to Black and disadvantaged entrepreneurs gaining foothold.
The report states Cox has the "full-throated endorsement" of twice-impeached Trump; the pair recently exchanged unfounded claims about 2020.
About 4.6 percent of all eligible active voters turned out during the early voting period.
The posted showed a mock highway sign that read, “Welcome to Baltimore City: Stay in Your Car! Windows Up — Doors Locked. Do Not Feed."
“Without a plan, without a history of success, without a way of being able to move forward, there is little hope for people" -- Schulz
Today, Maryland's interstate highways, I-495 and I-270, still belong to the public, as our taxes paid for them, and we depend on them.
Maryland hopes to take a cue from Boston, Mass., which elected the indefatigable Michelle Wu.