Eberly said that in the 1970s when the nation’s highest court upheld closed primary elections, only about 7% of Maryland voters were affiliated with a party other than the Democratic or ...

Five Maryland voters sued the state election board this week claiming that the use of taxpayer dollars to fund closed primary elections they cannot participate in violates their constitutional rights.

(Jeffrey F. Bill/Staff photo) Larry Hogan, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland, greets supporters before casting his ballot in the state primary election at Davidsonville Elementary ...

The suit alleges that state’s partisan primary process violates the rights of registered voters who are not affiliated with a political party.

Five Maryland voters who are not affiliated with any political party filed a lawsuit this week asking a state judge to declare the state’s restrictions on primary elections a violation of the ...

BALTIMORE -- The polls are closed in Maryland's 2024 primary election, now the counting begins for mail-in and provisional ballots. The effort, called canvassing, starts at 10 a.m. Thursday, and ...

A new lawsuit is challenging Maryland's closed primary system. If the lawsuit is successful, nearly a million Marylanders may ...

Five politically unaffiliated Maryland voters sued the state Board of Elections this week, claiming that taxpayer funding of closed primary elections in which they can’t vote violates their ...

A Maryland resident filed a lawsuit against the state and its Board of Elections, alleging that the state’s law of having a closed primary is unconstitutional.. The legal argument for the ...

As of April, there were 957,228 Unaffiliated voters registered in Maryland, an increase of nearly 50,000 over the last year, according to the state Board of Elections’ registration statistics.