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On August 26, 2026, the Circuit Court for Anne Arrundel County, Maryland, ruled in Michael Howell, et al. v. Maryland State Board of Elections, et al., No. 26-1986, that the recently rushed-through Maryland ballot question, aka HB2100 or Ballot Question 3, that would allow gerrymandering out the sole remaining Maryland Republican Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Andy Harris, may not be included on the Nov. 3, 2026, Maryland ballot, “Because the legislature did not follow the very laws it enacted, the court finds the enactment of HB2100 to be legally deficient.”
The court ruled that, even if the Maryland legislature is “exempted from following the laws they impose on all other Marylanders, the court finds that the ballot question itself to be deficient” because, as posted, the court found that the use of “the word ‘clarifies’ is misleading.”
The court found further that the ballot question is “intentionally misleading, and this should disqualify the ballot question as currently written.”…