voting machines

Early one morning this past week, Jack Kane was pacing around a Glen Burnie warehouse reviewing paperwork and checking equipment, making sure everything was in order to deliver scores of voting machine to regional polling stations.

The Baltimore County Board of Elections will be relocated from the Bloomsbury Community Center in Catonsville to Hunt Valley by February 2015.

In Annapolis, Republican challenger Mike Pantelides pressed elections officials for details on uncounted votes Wednesday, while Democratic incumbent Josh Cohen stayed quiet. Their fates could be decided on Thursday.

Voters can see how the city's electronic voting machine system operates at a demonstration next week. The system will be used for the upcoming City Council elections.

Last month, while many were wrapping up their summer vacations or preparing for family members to return to school, the 13th Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) was held Aug. 12-17, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.

Columnist Gwendolyn Glenn writes about glitches that popped up in the November presidential elections, and suggests they may have been attempts to dissuade voters.

For the first time in its history, Cecil County will have a county executive and, based on early unofficial election returns from Tuesday night, Republican Tari Moore will be the first to hold that office.

2012 Election Day in Baltimore brings long lines and heavy turnout at polling places: Medfield Heights Elementary School, Shrine of Sacred Heart in Mount Washington and others.

Two Democratic candidates in Maryland's 1st Congressional District remained locked in a too-close-to-call contest for the party's nomination on Thursday after an initial tally of absentee ballots left them separated by fewer than 100 votes.

In a letter to the editor, a Laurel resident expresses concern over the city's new voting machines, which do not generate paper documentation of votes.

Voters in Laurel's Nov. 1 city elections have more ways to cast their ballots, and the city has adopted new voting machines that will make counting the different ballots quicker and easier.

Buoyed by a national tide against Republicans, Mayor Martin O'Malley declared victory in the governor's race last night, appearing to have prevailed in his long and difficult campaign against a popular incumbent.