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Attachment E <br />Ear1y Voting Dra�vs Suppor�, Criticism <br />e'C?.`5���°i.).., :;��41�:.'.—'.:� �C:iL,'3i._,'Lto....(l�t�� <br />G���'�.��'.S� C�'��. ..., �?;"'t W��-3� E�:'C:[G�',t?f <�... s:i�;,� <br />AIVNAPOLiS, Md. -- Maryland voters will decide when they vote Nov. 4 whether to join 3i <br />other states that curren�ly aI1ow �arly voting, but the ic�ea is seeing some oppasition. <br />Ear1y vating is meant ta give voters niare tiriie anc� more flexibility to cast �heir bailots. <br />Curbsides, grocery stores, shopping malls ancl libraries could all be pol�ing places under early <br />voting, WBAL'I`V �i News reporfer David Collins said. <br />�upporters oi the idea applauded the concept as providing greater access to the polls. <br />"Ear�y voting provides opportunities for peopl� �rho work long ho urs, who may work far away <br />fro�-n their home so they can't get to the polling place easily," saic� Nancy Soreng, vice president <br />of the League o� Wamen Voters. <br />Question 1 on the November ballot in Maryland am�nc�s t�e state constitution to authorize the <br />General Assembly to pass lEgislation that crea�es an early voting process. <br />Tt wauld allow ballots to be cast up to two weeks befare Election Day. I� also allows for a no- <br />excuse absentee ballot, me�ning voters would no longer have to sign an oaih indicating �hat <br />�hey �von't be in town to vote in person. <br />Many Republicans said they are op�ased. Anne Arundel County Sen. Janet Greenip said that <br />absenteE batlats mal�e the rnitiative unnecessary and is concerned that it could lead to voter <br />fraud because i� allows p�ople to vote anywhere in the sfate, regardless of where they are <br />registered. <br />"Anybody �vho can`t make it on Election Day already �as an aut. There"s a problem, also, with <br />keeping the polls open. We`re tal�zing abou� a minimum of three polls per county for i4 days. <br />How do we knaw that �hose machines -- o� whaiever we are using -- �rE secure?" Greenip said. <br />The General Assembly authorizec� early vating in the 2005 and 2006 sessions, but then-Gov. <br />Robert Ehrlich vetoed both bills in part because Democrats identified specific polling plac�s <br />where early voting co�ld �ake place. <br />The �eneral Asse�nbly overrade the 2006 veto, b�t the Court of Appeals dEClar�d it <br />unconstitutional, ruling that early voting clashed with the state cons�itution, specifically <br />spelling out the date, place and time for vofing. <br />"We are set#ing a precedent right now �hat for the first tim� ever, we don't have an Election <br />Day;" Greenip said: <br />"This only autharizes the General Asseznbly �o create a mechanism so up to two weeks before <br />an e�ection, vote�s can go to a polling place t�at inay or may no� be in their owr� district and <br />cast their ballots," Soreng said. <br />If passec�, many officials said they expec� a battle at the State Hot�se over costs and where the <br />early voting polls will be Iocated. <br />
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