Election 2022

Maryland’s state prosecutor has fined the campaign of former gubernatorial candidate John B. King Jr. $2,000 for sending campaign material out over email without the required campaign authority line.

An audit released Friday found that the Maryland Board of Elections did not report for more than a year its findings that people voted or tried to vote more than once in the 2020 general election — well after the results were certified, according to the Office of Legislative Audits.

Less than half of the money raised by the Moore Miller Inaugural Committee came through individual ticket sales, with the rest coming from corporate and other donors.

Dawn Flythe Moore, who made history when she became Maryland’s first Black first lady, brings to her new role a background of working in state government in Annapolis. She's well positioned to take on the responsibilities and challenges, a Goucher College political science professor says.

Voters in November punished candidates whom they perceived as threats to fair elections, says the president of Get Money Out — Maryland, who warns that efforts are still underway to undermine elections and democracy.

While candidates aligned with Donald Trump can succeed in Republican primaries, Maryland voters will continue to reject those candidates in general elections, Towson University professor and political pundit Richard Vatz says.

Aruna Miller’s family of immigrants didn’t really discuss politics, but Miller jumped into Democratic Party work after becoming a citizen and voting for the first time in 2000.

Maryland Democratic Party Chairwoman Yvette Lewis says the state party had much to celebrate despite being unsuccessful in landing a spot among the early primary states in 2024. A Banner reader calls on Baltimore to create public works jobs targeting city teenagers and young adults. Another reader makes recommendations for controlling the feral cat population.

After getting trounced in statewide elections, the Maryland Republican Party turns to political consultant Nicole Beus Harris as its new leader.

Proposed new order for presidential primaries is: South Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Georgia and Michigan.

Democrats are on track to hold 102 of 141 seats in the House of Delegates and 34 of 47 seats in the state Senate.

The Maryland State Board of Elections said they were “unaware of any incident that had a material effect on the 2022 Gubernatorial General Election. The entire election process was free, fair and secure.”

Moore has more money left over than Cox raised over the course of the entire campaign.

Here, unlike many parts of the country, access to the ballot is fairly free, and women may still make reproduction decisions without the interference of right-wing vigilantes.

The pension bill passed 8-5 despite opposition from the city’s retirement system and finance department, which each advised against a rushed decision in a hearing earlier this month.

School board candidates Maggie Litz Domanowski and Brenda Hatcher-Savoy cemented their wins after the Baltimore County Board of Elections finished counting mail-in and provisional ballots late Friday.

See how your neighborhood voted in the Maryland Gubernatorial election.

At Gov.-elect Wes Moore’s announcement of his first hires, the essential Baltimore question followed: Where’d you go to school?

As ballot canvassing stretched into its fifth day on Tuesday, Steuart Pittman squeaked ahead of Jessica Haire by just 192 votes, with more mail votes remaining to be counted.

Forty-one socially conservative candidates from across Maryland ran for school board seats Tuesday — and 25 of them appear to be on their way to winning their races.