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Newly found ballots delay Montgomery County’s certification of election results – Maryland Matters
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The late discovery Thursday of 102 lacking provisional ballots in Montgomery County has delayed the county’s capacity to certify the July 19 main outcomes till Saturday — because the main candidates within the razor-thin Democratic main for county govt await a recount that’s anticipated to start out subsequent week.
County election officers introduced round 11 p.m. Thursday that that they had discovered 102 provisional ballots from 9 precincts that hadn’t beforehand been counted — a doubtlessly vital cache given County Government Marc Elrich’s 42-vote lead over businessman David Blair within the Democratic main for the county’s high job.
The Montgomery County Board of Elections had deliberate to fulfill Friday afternoon to certify the first election outcomes, however at a particular board assembly carried out over Zoom at 3:30 p.m. Friday, board members had been informed that they must meet Saturday morning to depend the remaining 102 ballots after which reconvene Saturday afternoon to certify the countywide outcomes.
“100 and two ballots nonetheless should be canvassed,” stated Kevin Karpinski, the board’s legal professional.
The depend of the beforehand lacking provisional ballots is scheduled to happen at 11 a.m. Saturday on the county election board headquarters in Gaithersburg. The board will meet once more nearly at 3 p.m. so as to add the provisional depend to the ultimate totals after which certify the outcomes.
At that time, Blair could have 72 hours to formally request a full recount of the first for county govt — one thing his marketing campaign has already indicated he intends to do.
County elections officers stated they wished to certify the election outcomes on Saturday in order that the Maryland State Board of Elections can certify the statewide outcomes at its subsequent board assembly, scheduled for Monday.
Whereas Montgomery elections officers forged the late discovery of the 102 uncounted provisional ballots as proof that the native board’s auditing course of labored, it nonetheless created a brand new wrinkle to what has already been a messy election. On high of that, Friday’s particular board assembly, carried out on-line, was marred by technical difficulties, with board President Nahid Khozeimeh ceaselessly unable to listen to the proceedings however everybody else on the Zoom name in a position to hear her and her husband conversing as they tried to repair the issues.
“Nahid, while you’re not speaking, there’s a number of noise coming out of your location,” board Secretary David Naimon stated at one level in the course of the assembly.
“I do know that,” Khozeimeh replied. “One thing is damaged.”
When board members weren’t dealing with the balky know-how, they pressed Alysoun McLaughlin, the county’s appearing elections director, to clarify how the 102 provisional ballots went lacking. McLaughlin replied that they weren’t transferred from the folders by which they had been initially collected to the folder they’re speculated to be positioned in earlier than canvassing is meant to start.
“All I can say is it seems to me that we merely didn’t conduct a remaining sweep of all these folders to see that they’d been emptied,” she stated.
Requested whether or not this was a mistake made by one particular person or a number of folks on the county elections workers, McLaughlin replied, “The duty was shared. It is going to be the duty of a single particular person sooner or later.”
The Elrich-Blair main is a rematch of 2018, and the result’s eerily comparable: Elrich gained that race by 77 votes. The eventual winner of the first will face former Montgomery County Republican Central Committee Chair Reardon Sullivan within the basic election.
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Maryland
Michigan State football opens as sizable underdog vs Maryland
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Who’s ready for Big Ten play to begin? In all honesty, I am not. I really wish Michigan State football had more tune-up games after seeing them struggle against Florida Atlantic and only win 16-10. But unfortunately, that is not how the schedule unfolds for Michigan State this season.
The Spartans will hit the road for an early Big Ten game as they face Maryland on Saturday at 3:30 pm. Going into the season I thought Michigan State and the Terps were on a pretty level playing field, but after seeing both teams play week one that doesn’t appear to be the case.
And Vegas agrees.
Michigan State opens as a 7.5-point underdog next week at Maryland. My guess is that grows to 8, 8.5.
— Graham Couch (@Graham_Couch) September 1, 2024
As you all know, Michigan State only beat Florida Atlantic by six and did not look very impressive, especially on the offensive side of the ball. So it’s no surprise that MSU will be the underdog next week. But 7.5 points feels like a lot, and according to the Lansing State Journal’s Graham Couch, it likely will only go up from there.
So does Vegas have it right or are they underrating Michigan State?
Looking at Maryland’s week one game against UConn it appears Vegas has this line right. The Terps were up 23-0 at halftime and never looked back and went on to win in dominant fashion 50-7. UConn and FAU are very similar in terms of what level they’re at in college football, so that drastic of a difference in the final score is very scary.
So Vegas probably could’ve gotten away with Maryland being even bigger favorites in this one.
But maybe Vegas saw what I did and thinks a lot of Michigan State’s mistakes on Friday are easy to fix. Maybe they think Aidan Chiles will be much better next week. The Spartan’s defense was also fairly dominant so there isn’t much of a chance Maryland scores 50 points next week either.
I tend to not bet on Michigan State games, but even if I did this would be a line that I would avoid because who knows how much Jonathan Smith’s squad will improve by next week, and who knows how much Maryland might struggle against a Power Four opponent.
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University of Maryland reverses decision to allow anti-Israel protest on October 7
The University of Maryland on Sunday reversed its decision to allow an anti-Israel protest on the first anniversary of the October 7 Massacre, following backlash from local Jewish groups.
UMD Students for Justice in Palestine and UMD Jewish Voice for Peace had been set to hold their October 7 vigil for Gazans killed in the Israel-Hamas War at the campus’s Mckeldin Mall, but the University System of Maryland (USM) said in a statement that on the day of the Hamas-led pogrom it would limit campus events requiring permits or approval to those supporting “a university-sponsored Day of Dialogue.”
“From the beginning of the war, we have come together as a University System to urge that we use this moment to encourage conversation, compassion, and civility; to engage with one another across our differences and draw on our shared humanity and our shared values to bridge what divides us,” said USM. “These dialogues aren’t new. Many of our universities have been hosting this kind of programming for several months. Reserving Oct. 7 gives us a chance to continue these urgent conversations and to mark this solemn anniversary in a way that gives students—all students—the time and space to share and to be heard.”
USM said that its intent was not to infringe of the free expression and speech of students, but to be sensitive to the needs of students as October 7 was a “day of enormous suffering and grief for many in our campus communities.”
UMD Jewish Student Union, Maryland Hillel, Terps for Israel, and Israeli American Council Mishelanu at Maryland welcomed the USM decision and thanked UMD leadership in a joint social media statement on Sunday.
“October 7, the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, is a day of mourning for the Jewish and Israeli community,” said the UMD JSU. “We are relieved that SJP will no longer to be able to appropriate the suffering of our family and friends to fit their false and dangerous narrative.”
The Jewish groups said that it was distraught that the decision to only hold university-sponsored event had to be made at all, and wished to used the campus space to “grieve together as a community” to promote unity at the university. The unideal situation was necessary, according to the Jewish groups, to ensure the physical and psychological safety of students on the day of mourning.
UMD JVP and SJP attacked the decision to cancel the event, claiming that the vigil for Palestinians killed since the October 7 Massacre was attacked without familiarity of the content. The anti-Israel groups said that the discourse was “the continuation inherently racist, Islamophobic, and dehumanizing rhetoric surrounding Palestinians.” JVP and SJP said that the actions against their event were an attempt to paint “Muslim, Arab, and anti-Zionist Jewish students as barbaric.”
The anti-Israel groups asserted that their vigil for Palestinians who died in the war was no threat to the campus’s Jewish community, but conflation of Zionism and Judaism did threaten UMD and the Jewish community.
“To claim that Palestinians cannot hold a day of remembrance in mourning one year of genocide, or lay claim to that date is an insult to every life lost in the Zionist entity’s genocidal campaign,” UMD SJP and JVP said on Instagram on Sunday. “The disproportionate scale of suffering experienced by the Palestinians over the past year necessitates their remembrance and our solidarity on this day. The suffering of all innocents killed must not be monopolized and necessitates a fair and just representation.”
SJP and JVP demanded the right to organize and exercise their right to free speech, accusing Zionists of attempting to stifle Palestinian voices.
The organizations indicated on their Sunday Instagram post that they still planned to hold their all-day event at Mckeldin Mall, and on Monday a link to register still active and listing the campus building as the rally location.
UMD Jewish groups said that they would be holding their own event to memorialize the victims of the October 7 pogrom at the Maryland Hillel.
Maryland
Sunshine for your Labor Day in Maryland
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