-- MARYLAND’S PRIMARY IS JUST TWO DAYS OUT. AND THE CITY BOARD OF ELECTIONS IS MAKING THE FINAL ADJUSTMENTS FOR THE MAIL IN ELECTION. KATE: THE CORONAVIRUS HAS CHANGED OUR ELECTION PROCESS, THE VOTERS AND BOAT SEEKERS. AND TODAY, AS CANDIDATES CONTINUED TO PUSH FOR SUPPORT, IN A SOCIALLY DISTANCED WAY AS TERS CONTINUE TO WEIGH IN. THAT’S THE SOUND OF A BALLOT SCANNER. THE UN-OFFICIAL SOUND OF OUR STATES 2020 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY. BECAUSE, THANKS TO THE CORONAVIRUS, THIS IS MARYLAND’S FIRST STATEWIDE ELECTION DESIGNED TO BE ALL VOTE BY MAIL. AND ALL THAT MAIL GETS SCANNED AND TALLIE BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON, BALTIMORE CITY ELECTION OFFICIALS HAD SCANNED SOME 71,000 BALLOTS INSIDE THIS WEST BALTIMORE WAREHOUSE, >> I THINK ANY BASIC PROCESS YOU DO FIRST TIME ALWAYS HAS ITS CHALLENGES. OF COURSE, WITH THE VIRUS, IT HAS BROUGHT SOME CHALLENGES. WE ARE LIMITED ON THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE WHO CAN BE WITHIN A BOAT CENTER IN ONE TIME. WE ARE EVEN LIMITED AT THE WAREHOUSE. KAI: TOMORROW, ELECTION OFFICIALS WILL SET UP THE SIX IN PERSON VOTING SITES FOR TUESDAY, AS TEAMS OF TO CONTINUE COLLECTING BATCHES OF BALLOTS, THREE TIMES A DAY, FROM 15 SECURE BALLOT DROP BOXES ACROSS BALTIMORE CITY. COVID-19 HAS ALSO COMPLICATED A TRADITIONAL GET OUT THE VOTE PUSH. TODAY, MARYLAND DEMOCRATS FORCED TO GO VIRTUAL, AND MOVE A PLANNED RALLY ONLINE. >> THE WEIRDEST ELECTION OF AMERICAN HISTORY JUST HAPPENS TO BE THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION. GO VOTE. KATE: THE BALLOT DROP TAXES -- DROP BOXES REMAIN AVAILABLE FOR
Thousands of ballots scanned ahead of Tuesday's Primary Election in Maryland
Updated: 7:05 AM EDT Jun 1, 2020
Churches, bars and restaurants aren't the only ones who have to adapt to the pandemic. There's also the Baltimore City Board of Elections. Maryland's primary is Tuesday and the City Board of Elections is making the final adjustments for the mail-in election. The coronavirus has changed the election process for voters and candidates. As candidates continue to push for support in a socially distant way, voters continue to weigh in.The unofficial sound of our state's 2020 presidential primary is a ballot scanner. Thanks to the coronavirus, this is Maryland’s first statewide election designed to be all vote by mail, and all that mail gets scanned and tallied.By Sunday afternoon, Baltimore City Elections officials had scanned some 71,000 ballots inside a west Baltimore warehouse."I think any basic process that you do the first time always has its challenges, and of course, with the virus, it has changed how many people can be at a vote center at one time. We're even limited here at the warehouse,” said Baltimore City Elections Director Armstead Jones.Monday, elections officials will set up the city's six, in-person voting sites for Tuesday, as teams of two continue collecting batches of ballots, three times a day, from 15 secure ballot drop-boxes across Baltimore City.COVID-19 has also complicated the traditional get out the vote push. On Sunday, Maryland Democrats were forced to go virtual with a planned rally online.Ballot drop boxes are available 24 hours a day until 8 p.m. on Election Day.
BALTIMORE — Churches, bars and restaurants aren't the only ones who have to adapt to the pandemic. There's also the Baltimore City Board of Elections. Maryland's primary is Tuesday and the City Board of Elections is making the final adjustments for the mail-in election.
The coronavirus has changed the election process for voters and candidates. As candidates continue to push for support in a socially distant way, voters continue to weigh in.
The unofficial sound of our state's 2020 presidential primary is a ballot scanner. Thanks to the coronavirus, this is Maryland’s first statewide election designed to be all vote by mail, and all that mail gets scanned and tallied.
By Sunday afternoon, Baltimore City Elections officials had scanned some 71,000 ballots inside a west Baltimore warehouse.
"I think any basic process that you do the first time always has its challenges, and of course, with the virus, it has changed how many people can be at a vote center at one time. We're even limited here at the warehouse,” said Baltimore City Elections Director Armstead Jones.
Monday, elections officials will set up the city's six, in-person voting sites for Tuesday, as teams of two continue collecting batches of ballots, three times a day, from 15 secure ballot drop-boxes across Baltimore City.
COVID-19 has also complicated the traditional get out the vote push. On Sunday, Maryland Democrats were forced to go virtual with a planned rally online.
Ballot drop boxes are available 24 hours a day until 8 p.m. on Election Day.