Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks is criticizing Gov. Larry Hogan’s assertion this week that county officials are attempting to disenfranchise and suppress the vote of Maryland’s minority residents, accusing the governor of mocking the residents of her county for their concerns about COVID-19.
In a statement issued late Wednesday, Alsobrooks said Hogan’s “disingenuous assertion” that the county’s election plan for November was an attempt to stop voters from participating in the election “flies in the face of the facts, and he knows it.”
Voter turnout during the June primary, when voters across the state were mailed a ballot, was the highest Prince George’s County has experienced in 12 years, said Alsobrooks, a Democrat.
“The Governor’s proposal puts politics above the health and safety of Prince Georgians,” she said, a nod to the county having the most coronavirus cases, per capita, in the state. “There is no other way to justify his refusal to mail ballots to Marylanders, or his request that we, in the middle of a pandemic, ask hundreds of thousands of voters to go to crowded polling places.”
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