Overview
- The State Board of Elections, which disclosed the vendor error Friday, will resend ballots to every mail voter before the June 23 primary.
- Officials say the risk was limited to ballots requested and mailed before May 14, and they still do not know how many voters received a wrong-party ballot.
- Because they cannot identify which individual voters were affected, administrators chose a blanket resend to ensure accuracy and confidence in the count.
- More than 500,000 Marylanders requested mail ballots this year, a scale that helped drive the decision to replace all mailed packets.
- Voters who used web delivery to download and print at home were not affected, and the elections office is notifying voters and staffing phones and email to guide next steps.