Posted on 06/05/2020 6:36:41 PM PDT by Libloather
Election results vanished from the state website. Officials discovered ballots misprinted. One candidate for mayor sent in his lawyer.
Wednesday brought a rocky start to the canvass that should reveal Baltimore’s next mayor. By the afternoon, state lawmakers and the governor demanded elections administrators explain themselves.
Maryland’s first statewide vote-by-mail election already meant that complete results would take longer than voters were used to, as ballots trickle in by mail and elections officials “quarantine" documents before opening them because of the new coronavirus.
But add errors on ballots and problems in tabulating returns and the primary’s close races may well end up in the courts, experts say.
“This is a system change. We’ve never done this before in the state of Maryland — never, ever. There are going to be issues,” said John Willis, the former Maryland secretary of state who helped reform election laws.
“Is the magnitude of those issues greater than the margin of apparent winning?” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
I’m just trying to find out when the felonious, ex-mayer Pugh gets sent to the big house. No info yet.
If you would just quit paying attention they will too, now now everything in correct order.
Mail voting = fraud.
Spoiler alert. Democrats won every race.
We need to have people studying every case like this and coming up with controls to prevent problems. A list of to do’s and not to do’s.
And make it law.
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/06/04/baltimore-really-returning-disgraced-mayor-office/
Is Baltimore really returning their disgraced mayor to office?
“Baltimore’s voters appear to be on the verge of putting former Mayor Dixon back in her old office. As you may recall, Dixon was driven from office in 2010 following her conviction for embezzling funds intended to help the poor.”
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