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Valerie Ervin threatens to sue after Maryland election board declines to print new ballots
Baltimore Sun ^ | 5/24/18 | Ian Duncan

Posted on 05/29/2018 2:22:57 AM PDT by Libloather

Rather than print new ballots before next month’s primary, Maryland elections officials decided Thursday to notify Democratic voters that former candidate Kevin Kamenetz has died and that a vote for him will be counted as vote for Valerie Ervin, his former running mate.

The state Board of Elections has said that it could not print new ballots to reflect Ervin’s last-minute gubernatorial candidacy largely because a single paper mill makes the only paper that Maryland’s voting machines can read.

**SNIP**

Ervin decided to run after Kamenetz died suddenly May 10.

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ballots; election; ervin; maryland
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To: centurion316; Gay State Conservative; Liz

Yep, dead folks have won before. Denying the person listed on the ballot and automatically handing those votes to someone else would be disenfranchising - yes?


21 posted on 05/29/2018 8:38:38 AM PDT by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: Libloather

Death of a candidate should trigger a special election, but in many places, the party apparatchiks get to decide who wins the election. Fortunately, fewer and fewer voters are voting a straight ticket anymore. I wonder how many states even allow that these days.


22 posted on 05/29/2018 8:59:13 AM PDT by centurion316 (Back from exile from 4/2016 until 4/2018.)
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To: OldMissileer
Boy, you are right. Did I ever miss the target there....

Not for lazy people at all...for people with a specific purpose.

23 posted on 05/29/2018 11:03:30 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: rlmorel

Absentee voting used to be strictly regulated for people who could show they would not be able to make it to their designated polling place. I watched as Democrats whined and cried about how it was discrimination to have such tight rules so they were relaxed.

Now that the camel’s nose was in the tent they pushed for the Motor Voter law (Clinton regime) and then all these terrible Early Voting laws, every one of which was meant to expand Democrat voter fraud.

The bad thing is the Republicans rolled over and allowed these laws to happen because the instant they were accused of racism they would cower in a corner rather than fight. Then, again, many of the Republicans wanted those laws as they had a vested interest in the leftist takeover of our Country.


24 posted on 05/29/2018 11:15:15 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We won’t be voting for her anyway.


25 posted on 05/29/2018 2:30:23 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We're even doing the right thing for them. They just don't know it yet. --Donald Trump, CPAC '18)
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To: i_robot73

at least it USED to be!


26 posted on 05/29/2018 2:38:36 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Libloather

1. Only one paper mill can make readable ballots? That’s completely bogus. Either that’s a total lie *OR* somebody paid off somebody to get a lock on an exclusive contract.

2. She should look at this as a positive. If people know that Kamenetz is dead, he might get a lot more votes from people who would rather have a dead guy than any of the other choices.


27 posted on 05/29/2018 6:32:42 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: Libloather; 100American; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ..

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


28 posted on 06/01/2018 5:08:12 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks ( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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