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Tuesday, June 26, 2018

80,000 Marylanders Impacted By Voter Registration Error

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — A technology glitch could make extra work for 80,000 Maryland voters this election day.

If you registered a change of address or party, and didn’t receive a new voters card, you could be one of thousands of people who can still vote, but will have use a provisional ballot on Tuesday.

They’ll have to cast provisional ballots after a computer failed to register new addresses or party affiliation changes.

Secretary Pete K. Rahn on released the following statement:

“The MDOT Auditor will immediately begin a review of MDOT MVA’s Information Technology systems and management controls. The public relies on us to follow through on our customer service commitments, and MDOT MVA clearly fell short in this case. While all Marylanders, who are eligible to vote in this election, can vote tomorrow, the fact that their information wasn’t updated with the State Board of Elections as it should have been is unacceptable and will be remedied. I apologize to the Marylanders that count on us every day, and I assure all impacted voters that we will work overtime to make this right.”

The state board of elections says a computer error is to blame.

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4 comments:

Steve said...

You waited until ELECTION DAY to figure this out??????

Maryland may as well declare today as STATE VOTER FRAUD DAY.

Anonymous said...

80K - whoa!!!! 2 days ago it was only 19K.

Here come the lawsuits from the losers!

Anonymous said...

Maryland SHAME on yourselves...You are LAX, indifferent and don't care about Clean Voting. We the people are sick of it. Someone should be held accountable and heads should be rolling; people fired.

Anonymous said...

You are aware that the Director of the State Bd of Elections has her job for life, right?