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‘Corruption’ or ‘Incompetence’? Maryland Rushes to Reprint, Resend 500,000 Mail Ballots

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22.05.2026

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‘Corruption’ or ‘Incompetence’? Maryland Rushes to Reprint, Resend 500,000 Mail Ballots

Scrambling to repair its mail-ballot boondoggle, the Maryland State Board of Elections began reprinting ballots Thursday, with plans to have more than 500,000 ballots resent to voters by next Friday.

The elections board first announced last week that an undetermined number of mail ballots for the June 23 party primary were sent to the wrong voters, which it blamed on an error. While an undetermined number of voters will be voting a second ballot, the state’s top election official assured the public that only one ballot will be counted per voter for Maryland’s June party primary.

“The primary question that we have received from voters is ‘what do I do if I already returned my mail-in ballot.’ The answer is simply to vote the replacement ballot,” Jared DeMarinis, administrator for the Maryland State Board of Elections, said in a memo this week sent to voters across the state.

The memo went on to say the Maryland State Board of Elections has “safeguards that ensure only one ballot per voter is counted.”

The mishap of sending the wrong ballots to voters drew criticism from President Donald Trump, members of Congress, and other national election observers.

On Monday, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the Justice Department should investigate Maryland. On Thursday, he referred to “Maryland voting, which is so crooked.”

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