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Baltimore City Seeking More Election Judges Ahead Of July 19 Primary
July 13, 2022 -

With Maryland’s July primary just a few days out, the Baltimore City Board of Elections is searching for more election judges. The city’s board of elections is looking for volunteers who would be able to work the 2022 primary on July 19 and the general election in November. Volunteers selected as election judges would be paid $200 per day and a chief judge would be paid $275 a day for their efforts, the board said. To qualify, you must be a registered voter in Maryland. Additionally, you must be fluent in English, capable of working a 15-hour day and be able to sit or stand for extended periods.

Read More: WJZ CBS Baltimore
Political Notes: O’Malley and Schulz Campaigns File Complaints Over Outside Spending
July 13, 2022 -

Two statewide campaigns have filed complaints with the Maryland State Board of Elections after their races attracted outside spending. On Saturday, the campaign of Katie Curran O’Malley, who is in a competitive Democratic primary race for attorney general with Rep. Anthony Brown, filed a complaint with the Maryland State Board of Elections against the VoteVets PAC, which is airing an attack ad against O’Malley. The ad is the latest in what is becoming an acrimonious battle over bona fides in the race. In late June, O’Malley released an ad that highlighted recent endorsements by The Washington Post and Baltimore Sun and her experience as a judge and prosecutor.

Read More: Maryland Matters
Maryland elections: Here’s where the gubernatorial candidates stand
July 13, 2022 -

Voters in the July 19 Maryland primary election will choose Democratic and Republican nominees for governor, all hoping to succeed term-limited Gov. Larry Hogan (R) in November. Here is where several candidates stand on several key issues. Ten Democrats will appear on the ballot: former Prince George’s County executive Rushern L. Baker III, who suspended his campaign last month; former government worker and nonprofit executive Jon Baron; State Comptroller Peter Franchot; former Maryland attorney general Doug Gansler; Ralph W. Jaffe, a retired teacher; Ashwani Jain, a local program director for the National Kidney Foundation; former U.S. education secretary John B. King Jr.; author and former nonprofit chief Wes Moore; former Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez; and Jerome M. Segal, a philosopher and activist.

Read More: Washington Post
Jan. 6 Hearing: Raskin Leads Questioning, Harris Involvement in White House Planning Meeting Revealed
July 13, 2022 -

The U.S. House panel investigating Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results described Tuesday how the president explicitly called on his supporters to come to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, for a “wild” protest — resulting in an insurrection. Trump exerted extraordinary influence over the mob, who marched to the Capitol on his orders and undertook the violent attack, testimony showed. Many dispersed only when Trump asked them to do so, hours after mayhem broke out.

Read More: Maryland Matters
Hundreds of Baltimore City voters placed in wrong district following state redistricting
July 13, 2022 -

When Kirsten Johnson went to vote on East Cold Spring Lane on Friday during Maryland’s seven-day early voting period, things didn’t go as she had planned. A Roland Park resident since 2007, Johnson had received mailings from the Baltimore City Board of Elections informing her she lived in Maryland’s 41st legislative district, but a poll worker handed her a ballot for District 40. “I said, ‘Excuse me, there’s been a mistake,’” she recalled. The volunteer directed her back to the check-in table, where she showed more election volunteers her voter ID card and sample ballot, mailed to her by election officials, that all put her in District 41.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
Baltimore County’s deputy admin officer to resign, replaced by former city sanitation regulator, prosecutor
July 13, 2022 -

Deputy Administrative Officer Drew Vetter is leaving the Baltimore County executive suite, the county announced Tuesday, and it has already found his successor. Rebecca Young is leaving her post as head of the Baltimore City Environmental Control Board, where she supervised 13 staffers with a more than $1.5 million budget, to take the reins from Vetter, whose last day with the county is July 15, according to a news release Young, a Dundalk native, “brings a wealth a management experience and a deep knowledge of public safety issues and challenges to her new role,” County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. said in a statement.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner
Mosby’s Attorneys File Motion To Dismiss 2 Charges
July 13, 2022 -

Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s defense filed a motion last week asking for perjury charges against her to be dropped, saying Mosby did not deceive anyone when she self-certified she suffered “adverse financial consequences” during the COVID-19 pandemic. At issue is the the $40,000 and $50,000 prosecutors Mosby withdrew from her city retirement account to purchase two Florida properties. A provision of the CARES Act waived penalties on withdrawals for people who were adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read More: WJZ CBS Baltimore
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Maryland primary results may be delayed as mail-in votes are counted
July 13, 2022 -

Election results in tight races are likely to come days after Maryland’s July 19 primary as a pandemic-era shift to mail-in voting runs up against the state’s prohibition against counting ballots early, officials warn. Maryland regulations prevent election workers from even starting to count these mail-in votes — which could amount to a significant portion of the total — until the Thursday after Election Day. “Be patient,” advised William G. Voelp, chairman of the Maryland State Board of Elections, whose members are appointed by the governor. “Every legal vote will be counted, and then the state board of elections will certify based on not more than and not less than every legal vote being counted.”

Read More: Washington Post
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Maryland’s early voting turnout lags behind 2018, but unreturned mail-in ballots could make or break 2022 turnout
July 12, 2022 -

At the midpoint, Maryland has seen a decrease in voters taking advantage of early voting so far in 2022, but what that means for overall turnout remains up in the air with hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots yet to be cast. In the first four days of early voting, 58,715 Marylanders cast their ballots at early voting centers across the state — less than 2% of all eligible active voters. That’s almost 23,000 fewer voters than at the same point in the process in 2018, the state’s most recent gubernatorial primary. That year one-quarter of all votes were cast by early voters.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Candidates for Baltimore County school board have varying viewpoints on important education issues
July 12, 2022 -

The fractious Baltimore County school board could look a lot different following an election season that begins with three primaries this month. The board now has 12 members, but only Board Chair Julie Henn and Vice Chair Rod McMillion are certain to return. Four appointed members could leave after their terms expire in December, and three other seats will be on the July 19 primary ballot.

Read More: The Baltimore Banner

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