Elections panel approves guidelines to ‘address the canvassing issue’

Maryland's state election board unanimously approved a set of guidelines Tuesday laying out how thousands of mail-in ballots will be tabulated for the primary election, a move needed after a ballot mix-up led to the mailing of 437,000 replacement primary ballots.

By: Bryan P. Sears

Outlets: Maryland Matters

Published: June 10, 2026

Words: 509

Last Updated: 2 months ago

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Maryland’s five-member state election board unanimously approved a set of public guidelines Tuesday laying out how thousands of mail-in ballots will be tabulated for the primary election.

The guidelines were needed to address the “canvassing issue” created when more than 437,000 mail-in ballots had to be replaced late last month. The rules made public Tuesday lay out instructions on how local election boards are to treat the original, potentially erroneous ballots and the replacements meant …

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