Maryland election board administrator Jared DeMarinis defends voter registration system but won't confirm if Ian Andre Roberts received absentee ballots or remains registered.

Ashleigh Presnar, experienced in campaigns and government, has been hired as executive director of the Maryland Republican Party.

Only hours after Maryland congressman Steny Hoyer announced he wasn’t running again, Democrats in Prince George’s County were being surveyed about who they might support to replace him.

It would be easy, and tempting, for Maryland to get swept up in the fervor of midcycle redistricting that has gripped other states, writes Gary V. Hodge, but it wouldn't be the right thing to do or necessarily the wisest for Democrats looking for advantage.