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House Panel Flags Maryland’s Mail Ballot ‘Error’

After Maryland announced an error within a massive shipment of more than 500,000 mail-in ballots, Rep. Greg Murphy had a one-word description.

“Oops,” the North Carolina Republican said during a hearing Wednesday of the House Administration Subcommittee on Elections.

“What’s the deal going on with Maryland?” Murphy asked Don Palmer, a former chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

“It’s a very, it’s a huge mistake. Obviously, you can point at the vendor and say, well, the vendor made this mistake, but the buck stops with the election officials,” Palmer, now a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, told the House panel.

The Maryland State Board of Elections announced Friday that a portion of mail ballots for the June 23 party primaries went to voters of the wrong party. The board said it would be resending all 565,000 mail ballots, which should arrive at voters’ addresses by May 29.

Palmer, a former Florida elections director, said he has sympathy for election officials and their responsibility, but said, “it’s that type of thing that hurts confidence.”

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