A Maryland law that prohibits counting absentee ballots until two days after an election has delayed several primary races from being called.
The one-of-a-kind law that delays processing absentee ballots until 10 a.m. on the Thursday following a Tuesday election left several elections undecided Tuesday night. That included the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, in which author Wes Moore led a multicandidate field, and the Democratic nomination for state attorney general, which Rep. Anthony Brown was topping as of late Tuesday.
And in the Democratic primary for Maryland’s 4th Congressional District, a key contest for the deep-blue seat, former Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Glenn Ivey led Rep. Donna Edwards, trying to make a comeback bid in the seat she held from 2008 to 2017.
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Over half a million Maryland voters opted to vote by mail as of Monday.
Montgomery County had 112,000 ballot requests, accounting for 16% of its registered voters, and in Prince George’s County, it was 12%.
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The law is a holdout from the pre-pandemic world in which nearly everyone voted in person. The state legislature passed a measure that would have allowed absentee ballots to begin being counted eight days before election day, but Gov. Larry Hogan (R) vetoed the bill in May, citing election integrity concerns.
