Day: August 13, 2010

Elections board shores up voter registration rolls with better oversight, technology

After an audit this summer pointed out that the State Board of Elections did not tightly control its voter registration system, changes have been made – but their effectiveness won’t be proven until Sept. 14.

The critical report, released by the Office of Legislative Audits in June, noted that the state board did little oversight to ensure that changes to voter rolls – the responsibility of county boards – were correct. Additionally, reviews were not done to ensure that convicted felons were actually removed from voter rolls by county boards. Auditors looked at records for 22 convicted felons, and found that seven of them still had voting privileges.

State Roundup, August 13, 2010

EHRLICH FUND: Former Maryland governor Bob Ehrlich is set to release his fundraising total that is "a little bit ahead" of a $3 million goal his campaign set for the period, John Wagner reports for the Washington Post. And it's that money that talks, blogs the Post's...

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