Maryland’s State Board of Elections expects a record number of people to vote by mail in the closely-watched upcoming presidential election.
Deputy Administrator Nikki Charleson spoke to WJZ as her office began mailing out the first applications for mail-in ballots.
“If you can vote by mail, do so. It is the safest way to vote in a pandemic,“ she told WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren. “We are expecting the election as a whole to have very high turnout. Our voters are very engaged.”
Charleson rejected criticism from those who say the reduction from 1,600 in-person polling places to 360 larger voting centers could disenfranchise voters.
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