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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Read More »September 27, 2018 Comments Off on TDR editorial: Keep debating
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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Read More »August 14, 2018 Comments Off on Poll: Hogan holds early lead over Jealous in re-election bid
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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Read More »July 23, 2018 Comments Off on Time to change judicial elections
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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Read More »June 11, 2018 Comments Off on Supreme Court allows Ohio voter purge
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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Read More »May 18, 2018 Comments Off on Board: Primary ballot will have ‘Kamenetz’ as gubernatorial candidate, not ‘Ervin’
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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Read More »March 5, 2018 Comments Off on Md. Senate passed bill that ‘is not clearly unconstitutional’
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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Read More »January 2, 2015 Comments Off on Texas city emerges as new battleground on voting rights
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.
Read More »October 27, 2014 Comments Off on Board responds to voter complaints about machines
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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Read More »October 18, 2013 Comments Off on Judge denies injunction in Va. voter lawsuit
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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Read More »July 30, 2013 Comments Off on About 1,500 wrongly taken off Md. voter rolls
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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