As Ballot Tally Starts, Montgomery Interrogated

[MountainLaurel]

About the Election Day fuck-ups in one of the DC burbs.


Maryland's elections chief is demanding a full accounting of what went wrong in Montgomery County's primary election last week and asking for a detailed plan by Wednesday to ensure the same mistakes do not occur in November.

State elections administrator Linda H. Lamone sent the letter on Saturday to Montgomery officials, who today will begin counting thousands of provisional ballots that could determine the outcome of several local races. Election officials will also appear before a County Council committee this morning to answer questions on the electronic voting problems that plagued the county.

Lamone sent similar letters to election directors in Prince George's and Anne Arundel counties as well as Baltimore, demanding that corrective plans be put in place quickly.

"Your immediate and full-time attention to this plan of corrective action is imperative to restore public confidence in the election process prior to the General Election," Lamone said in her letter to Montgomery election director Margaret Jurgensen.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/17/AR2006091700679.html