Posted on 07/21/2022 12:42:17 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Montgomery County’s goal to declare the winners of Tuesday’s primary election is Aug. 12, more than three weeks after voting ends.
Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed a bill that would have allowed election workers to begin counting write-in votes as they were sent in. Instead, election workers will only begin counting those ballots starting Thursday, two days after the primary.
Maryland is the only state in the country that forbids counting mail in ballots early, State Sen. Cheryl Kagan said.
More than 500,000 residents requested mail in ballots. Therefore, the results of any close races will not be known until about mid-August, and because Montgomery County is the most populated county in the state, it could slow the results for the governor’s race as well as local races.
“That’s a really long time from now,” said Kagan. “We have a bit of a hot mess.”
Kagan predicted that Maryland will be “a laughing stock nationally,” and she is concerned that some will say “‘Oh, there is fraud going on.'”
(Excerpt) Read more at mymcmedia.org ...
1 million people live in Montgomery County - and 500K requested write in ballots for an off year primary ?!?!? I don’t think so …
They probably can be postmarked up until August 11th....
Yeah, I kind of figured she was pulling that number out of her ass. However I can believe 500K ballots were printed for nefarious purposes (like voter fraud).
Yes. Guaranteed there is intended fraud here. No excuse for this. Each precinct should be able to send in vote totals - both in person & mail-in, on the evening of the election. Results should be posted no later than the next day.
It’s important they know how many trafficked ballots they need to inject.
Before all this modern computer technology, election results were released and results known, generally on election night.
We have all this modern technology, and results won’t be known for weeks? Even considering that this restriction on counting mail in ballots early, why does it take weeks to do the counting and tallying results?
Let me know if you want on/off this list.....
This is slow walking on another level. This is like a DOT worker going to fetch a trailer over in the next county level slow walking.
Me neither...and why does it take 3 weeks to count them?
They just have one guy doing it?
They probably can be postmarked up until the results suit them....
That is a lot of ballot harvesting.
How else are they going to need how many votes they need?
500k across the STATE.
I went to High School with Cheryl. I have been trying to figure out for years what she does ...... apparently not much.
Yep. Just trying to “right-size” it.
She is either uniformed or a liar. New Hampshire forbids counting any ballots before election day, and that includes mailed in absentee ballots.
Hahahaha !
Montgomery County likes chaos. They could, instead, have paper ballots, one-day, in person voting, and have the results the day after Election Day.
The Rats are making it so the US cannot conduct elections.
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