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Provisional ballots in MD were highly concentrated in 2024. Some places may need more support in November. (opens the original)
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Nearly 150,000 Marylanders voted provisionally in the 2024 general election. <img alt="Finishing strong and counting every vote - by Sam Novey" class="sizing-normal" height="356.78329571106093" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BQfE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_aut
Bringing the voices of the elections workforce’s "missing middle" into election science research (opens the original)
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Earlier this year, we published a piece by CDCE Senior Fellow TJ Pyche about the need for election science to learn from elections professionals in entry-level and mid-level roles in election agencies. Here’s what he said: Our field knows a lot about chief election officials…But we know far less about the broader workforce that make elections run. We don’t know enough about the people who manage poll worker training and program election systems. We don’t know enough
The Promise (and Challenge) of Increasing Participation (opens the original)
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Baltimore City started holding municipal elections at the same time as federal elections in 2016. In 2012, pushed by local leaders, the State of Maryland passed legislation to change the dates of elections for local office for the City of Baltimore. Mayoral and City Council elections that had previously occurred in odd-numbered years (e.g., 2007, 2011) were moved to coincide with federal elections. This report examines the last two Mayoral elections before and the three Mayoral elections after t
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