Press Missing Key Election Issue

Lisa Handley is a political scientist who spends much of her time traveling the world observing and assisting the UN and other international organizations with transitional elections in a host of Third World countries. She served as an election judge last Tuesday in Montgomery County and has picked up on a major problem with the election that will affect the tabulation of the provisional ballots which the press has almost totally ignored.

Put simply, many of the so-called "provisional" ballots were not meant to be provisional. At the same time, the Board of Elections needs to verify whether the genuine provisional ballots ought to be counted. However, in many cases, the provisional ballots are all mixed together. Read more about the different types of provisional ballots cast last Tuesday and problems the Board of Elections faces in counting them in Lisa's post on Maryland Politics Watch.