How Much Do You Know About Question 5?

Maryland voters are seeing numerous ads about high-profile ballot questions on same-sex marriage and expanded gambling, but they are not hearing much about whether to approve or reject the state's congressional redistricting map.

Ask voters about Question 5, and it's not uncommon to see their faces go blank.

"Well, I don't know anything about it," said Bill Councill, a 76-year-old Glen Burnie resident, in a recent interview less than two weeks before the election. "I'd have to try to find something about it."

In an unusually busy year for ballot questions in Maryland, Question 5 will give voters a rare chance to weigh in on how their congressional districts were drawn for the next 10 years. But voters are focusing on other questions that have been far more widely advertised.

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