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The House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee met with legislative auditors, members of the state electoral board, and computer science experts to examine the state of election security in Maryland on Sept. 6 Capital News Service photo by Josh Schmidt.
Legislators consider improving Maryland election security after hearing with state voting board

Maryland legislators learned last week the state’s electronic balloting system may need better security measures to protect voters’ information and that the lawmakers must be the ones to add those protections.

In April 2016, Maryland will switch from touch-screen ballots to paper ones like this. The Maryland State Board of Elections showed samples of the new ballot in Annapolis on Friday, January 29, 2016. (Capital News Service photo by Rachel Bluth.)
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Maryland takes measures to increase voter access

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland – The state of Maryland, whose voters experienced long lines in the 2012 election, made big changes to the voting system to correct wait time problems and accommodate a group of newly eligible voters: ex-felons. Those that…