One week into Maryland’s early voting period and six days from Election Day, ballot security and voter fraud are being called into question in a gubernatorial race that is tighter than most expected.
Republican officials and average citizens are expressing concerns over faulty voting equipment, erroneous absentee ballot mailings and the potential for voter fraud by non-citizens.
State crafts guidelines to address Ebola situation and eyeing travelers from three West African countries; Board of Elections pulls half a dozen voting machines from service; Gun control advocates hound Hogan for his A- NRA questionnaire; Brown raises $4.1 million in two months, while state Republican Party brings in $700,000 for Hogan; close gubernatorial race draws national attention; Hogan declares war on heroin problem; Josh Kurtz speculates on what a Brown administration would look like; and Watson leads in fund-raising for Howard County exec but Kittleman catching up.
State officials responsible for overseeing construction of the health exchange platform faced two frightful choices under the contract to produce the website in the months preceding the Oct. 1, 2013 ”go live” date:
Terminate Noridian, and fail to bring any health exchange platform to market; or
Keep Noridian on the job while violating major contract provisions designed to maintain equilibrium between payments to Noridian, and the quality and completeness of their work.
The state decided on the latter.
Even though winning is a long shot, Libertarian candidate for attorney general Leo Dymowski continues his “symbolic campaign” to bring awareness to drug prohibition in Maryland.
“This is a symbolic campaign,” said Dymowski, a hearing officer with Maryland Parole Commission, “I’m going for 100,000 votes and I think we are doing well.”
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