Depriving Marylanders of multiple chances to hear candidates get challenged by independent observers – and each other – only hurts the state’s residents.

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Gov. Larry Hogan is on track to become just second Republican re-elected in Maryland, according to a poll released Tuesday by Gonzales Research and Media Services.

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Although we will never have a perfect election system, our system of electing for circuit court judges (the only judicial level that requires a non-retention election) can improve drastically.

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The Supreme Court is allowing Ohio to clean up its voting rolls by targeting people who haven't cast ballots in a while.

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Death will not take Kevin Kamenetz’s name off the Democratic primary ballot for Maryland governor -- nor does time permit his former running mate, Valerie Ervin, to have her name added to the list of candidates for chief executive, the State Board of Elections said Friday.

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Legislation could ultimately require candidates for president to release their tax returns as a condition of appearing on the state's ballot.

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Pasadena, Texas is preparing to change the makeup of its city council in a way that city fathers hope fosters new development, but that some Hispanics allege dilutes their influence.

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The Maryland State Board of Elections announced Monday that it has examined fewer than 20 voting units after some voters reported that the machines displayed a different candidate than the one they selected during early voting.

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge has rejected a request from Virginia Democrats who want the State Board of Elections to reinstate nearly 40,000 voters who were recently purged from the voter rolls. County officials conducted the purge recently on ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Court officials say roughly 1,500 Maryland residents with misdemeanor convictions were wrongly taken of voter rolls over the last six years. The Capital reports that officials didn’t become aware until former Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold contacted ...

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