Politics

It may take several days before we know the results of Maryland’s tightest races, according to elections officials.

The shift likely has major implications on who is nominated in future elections as more voters opt out of participating in closed primaries and partisans gain power.

Howard County Council Chair Deb Jung asks residents to vote for Question A, which would allow the council to create an independent Office of the Inspector General.

Signs point to large voter turnout by youths this election. But will they actually vote?

#iVoted, which works in conjunction with Johns Hopkins University’s SNF Agora Institute, produces free concerts as an incentive to get young people to vote.

For decades, York County, Pennsylvania, has been a place where Baltimore area government employees live. It's more conservative than the three counties that it touches in Maryland, and now plays a role in the presidential election.

In a post on social media Saturday, Martin O’Malley called it “a terrible developer grab of public waterfront parkland.”

We’ve combed social media profiles, watched television appearances and read interviews in other publications to tell you how celebrities with Maryland ties will vote this election cycle.

Many of the plans referenced under Project 2025 come from a book titled, “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise.” We read through it to see how it could affect Maryland.

The nonprofits that sent ‘vaguely threatening’ voting mailers say their methods are lawful. Maryland’s Attorney General disagreed and told them to stop.

More Democrats cast ballots in early voting this year, but a higher share of registered Republicans turned out, a Banner analysis of early voting data found.

All told, between early votes and returned mail ballots, more than 1.56 million of the state’s 4.2 million voters have already voted for a turnout of 37%.

The ballot measure to expand Baltimore County Council is aimed at bringing diversity to the all-male and mostly white council.

Even though U.S. Small Business Administration funds are depleted, requests for financial help from those affected by the Key Bridge disaster continue to roll in, including 500 new applications in the last month.

Baltimore’s share of state cannabis taxes will be more than $7 million, and Question G is meant to prepare the city for that new revenue stream.

In conversations with undecided voters across Maryland, I heard plenty of reasons for being unable to chose Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. At this point, it sounds like willful indecision.

Critics have said the ballot measure to shrink the Baltimore City Council will disenfranchise majority-Black neighborhoods. A Banner analysis found the vast majority of signers live in those neighborhoods and are Democrats. But why did they sign?

Former president Barack Obama dropped in at a phone bank for Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks on Thursday. He brought Halloween cookies and stressed the importance of electing Democrats like Alsobrooks to support the agenda of Kamala Harris.

Former Mayors Kurt Schmoke, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Bernard C. “Jack” Young encouraged voters to vote in favor of Question F. Their backing was announced by Baltimore for a New Harborplace, a group that has been trying to mobilize support for the redevelopment.

The letter come with this in bold: “Remember, who you vote for is private, but whether or not you voted is public record.”