Maryland lawmakers are trying again to ban intentionally false campaign materials, pointing to 2006 campaign fliers that misidentified former Republican Gov. Robert Ehrlich and Senate candidate Michael Steele as Democrats.
Members of the Maryland House of Delegates Tuesday debated a proposal that would prohibit campaign materials similar to the sample ballots supporters of Ehrlich and Steele distributed to black Democrats in Prince George?s County and Baltimore City on the eve of the general election.
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