'Elections officials and advocates have called it a nightmare. [View all]
Why is Gov. Larry Hogan pushing ahead with his election plan?
The warnings from election officials and voting rights advocates have been downright apocalyptic.
“It’s chaos,” said Joanne Antoine, executive director of Common Cause Maryland, upon hearing of Gov. Larry Hogan’s decision last week to hold a traditional election.
“This is pretty much a nightmare,” Baltimore Elections Director Armstead Jones told his board Thursday as he updated them on preparations for November’s election.
And Friday, Baltimore County’s Democratic County Executive, Johnny Olszewski Jr. asked Hogan to “revisit this misguided decision.”
”Follow CDC advice, and empower Marylanders to cast their ballots in a way that does not jeopardize public health or overextend local boards of elections,” he said.
Opposition to Hogan’s plan has grown steadily louder since the Republican governor called for the November election to be held primarily in person, with all voting precincts open as well as early voting locations.
Unlike the June primary, when voters across the state were mailed ballots as a precaution during the global COVID-19 outbreak, Hogan this time wants all voters to receive applications for absentee ballots. They will have to return the application to receive a ballot by mail, a move that voting rights advocates and top Democratic leaders have decried as an impediment to voting that could disenfranchise thousands of Marylanders.'>>>
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