America stared at Maryland in disbelief when Des Moines, Iowa, Public School Superintendent Ian Andre Roberts was revealed to be a registered voter in the Free State. Mr. Roberts is a noncitizen with a deportation order and a gun charge. How could he be registered to vote in federal elections?
The Maryland State Board of Elections has a long list of questions to answer, far beyond putting Mr. Roberts on the voter roll. Mr. Roberts submitted not just one, but two voter registration applications in Maryland: one in 2011 and another in 2016. Functionally, all questions boil down to one question: Why does the Maryland State Board of Elections refuse to follow federal law?
The board has been reprimanded in federal court three times in the past six years for refusing to follow the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. Maryland has multiple counties with more than 100% voter registration, and Marylanders report via the U.S. census that they are registered to vote at a 75.6% registration rate…