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Payment App Bill Not Comprehensive Enough to Fight Fraud
Over the last several years, there’s been a change in the financial sector. As cash and checks...
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Elections Board audit finds ineligible voters, security issues
An audit released Friday found that the Maryland Board of Elections did not report for more than a year its findings that people voted or tried to vote more than once in the 2020 general election – well after the results were certified, according to The Office of Legislative Audits.
Read MoreLegislators call for early voting the weekend before Election Day, but elections chief concerned about double voting
Two lawmakers want to increase turnout by extending early voting through the Sunday before Election Day, a move election officials say would wipe out safeguards that keep people from voting twice.
Read MoreState auditors seek criminal probe into possible fraud and misuse of money in Baltimore-area prisons
There were so many opportunities for fraud and misuse of money by workers in the Baltimore region of the state prison system that state auditors are asking the attorney general to look into possible criminal charges.
Auditors found an “almost complete lack of control and accountability” for the corrections region’s working funds, uncovering included thousands of dollars in penalties for bounced checks, checking accounts out of balance by hundreds of thousands of dollars, and checks machine-signed by people who no longer worked at the department.
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