My Election Reform Act of 2022 has three provisions.

“Two of the problems that House Bill 410 addresses are not hypothetical,” I testified today.

“One addresses what will no doubt soon not be a hypothetical.”

Before last year’s primary, the polling place for the Grove Park neighborhood was moved from the local school to the fire station.

From plenty of parking to no parking.

My bill would require that if a polling place change is made more than 21 days before the election, there must be a public hearing.

This would give the affected voters an opportunity to express their concerns.

In Maryland and other states, election boards were swamped with public information requests that interfered with necessary preparations for last year’s elections.

Under HB 410, an election board may deny access to election records, within 90 days of an election, if a judge finds that inspection of the records would cause “substantial injury to the public interest.”

Finally, it is already against the law to willfully influence or attempt to influence through the use of force, fraud and other illegal acts a voter’s decision to “go to the polls to cast a vote.”

My legislation would make such actions illegal, when directed at a voter’s decision to “vote by other lawful means,” such as a mail ballot.