Tuesday, June 17, 2014

The Maryland Primary

On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 the voters in Maryland will set their slate for the November Mid-term election. The Democratic Governor, Martin O'Malley cannot run again due to term limits in that state. There are six sets of Democratic Governor/Lt.Governor candidates in this primary. According to Real Clear Politics: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2014/governor/md/maryland_governor_democratic_primary-4141.html current Lt.Gov. Anthony Brown and his running mate, Ken Ulman have double digit leads heading into Tuesday's vote.

Maryland is a solid Blue state and neither of their Senators faces re-election this year.

For concise voter information please check: http://elections.mytimetovote.com/dates/maryland.html
and http://www.elections.state.md.us/elections/2014/index.html

Maryland has a mixed primary system and the parties can decide who may vote in their primary election. According to http://ballotpedia.org/Maryland_elections,_2014 the parties have closed the primary to voters outside their party. Maryland also has on-line voter registration. Early voting has already commenced in Maryland.

If you live in Maryland and have NOT already voted early, please vote for Democrats next Tuesday.

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