Voting

The State Board of Elections gave preliminary approval to a change allowing people to take photos of their own ballots in the voting booth.

Between mail-in and in-person voting, 37% of Maryland residents have cast a ballot for the 2024 General Election.

The Republican Senate candidate vetoed more than 160 bills during eight years as governor, including those related to guns, abortion, police reform and minimum wage.

Fatmata Barrie is from Silver Spring, Maryland. She is the founder of Africans in the Diaspora for Harris-Walz.

Both campaigns see the diverse, voter-rich locality as crucial to victory.

Nearly 20% of the state’s population is foreign born, and about 225,000 people are in the state without authorization.

Chair Ronald McFadden and member Mujahid Muhammad were some of the only local leaders to show at a student-run town hall this weekend to field youth questions.

The rule change follows emails between the board’s Republican members and a group alleging election fraud.

Early voting centers are open statewide through October 31.

City voters have a wide variety of questions to decide this fall.