As Maryland gears up for what’s expected to be the largest voter turnout in state history this November, election officials are closing the knowledge gap between the mostly elderly poll workers and the modern voting equipment.
“The majority of [election] judges are retirees and they’re not completely savvy with the new machines,” said W. Gregory Wims, a member of the Maryland attorney general’s task force on voting irregularities, which released a report on fraud in the 2006 primary elections last week.
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