Howard County Executive Ken Ulman was introducing Democratic candidates around the room at a fundraiser for a House of Delegates candidate last month when he spied Bryon MacFarlane.
He’s running for register of wills, Ulman said. “You can ask him what they do.”
What indeed does a register of wills or a clerk of a court do and why are Maryland voters still electing them in partisan elections?
The only thing political about these offices is the partisan election that gets candidates elected to four-year terms. The rest of the time, registers of wills and clerks of courts are doing specialized full-time administrative jobs in the judicial branch of government.
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Look around...in some counties,especially here on the shore, the same people have been "clerk of Court"and "Register of Wills" for as long as I have been alive.3 or 4 decades in office......great work if you can get it.
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