Maryland ballot blunder triggers GOP push for federal review of blue state's voter rolls
Vendor urges voters to destroy erroneously received ballot, but conservatives question election integrity
By Eric Mack Fox News
Published May 18, 2026 9:02am EDT
A Maryland primary ballot mix-up has renewed Republican calls for a federal review of the state's voter rolls after some of the 400,000 primary voters requesting a mall-in ballot received the ballot of the wrong party this weekend.
Maryland’s conservative Freedom Caucus is demanding that state elections officials release Maryland’s voter rolls to the federal government for an audit after a vendor error forced the state to resend thousands of mail-in primary ballots.
"The Maryland Freedom Caucus is calling on Secretary of the Election Board, Jared DeMarinis, to immediately release Maryland's voter rolls to the federal government so a proper audit can be conducted to determine the sources of the mistake," the caucus wrote in a statement. "We caution against reissuing another 400,000 ballots and we demand to know how the state intends to differentiate between the first and second printing of these ballots."
"The citizens have a right to know the exact process by which ballots will be scrutinized," the statement continued. "With 400,000 double ballots in circulation, we need to be absolutely sure that there is one vote, one person."
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