Baltimore Co. is short on election judges

Baltimore County election judges are scrambling to find about 200 Democratic polling judges by November?s general election ? an odd predicament, they said, for a county where Democrats outnumber Republicans twofold.

The situation is an improvement to the 500-judge shortage immediately after the primaries, said Katie Brown, deputy director of the county?s Board of Elections. The county successfully recruited enough Republican chief judges but are reaching out to the state?s bar association and universities to find last-minute Democratic volunteers, she said.