MD-04: Where the Story Is Now

From the Baltimore Sun:

A week after Marylanders voted in the primary, the race for the Democratic nomination for the 4th District seat remains too close to call.

Fewer than 3,000 votes out of about 75,000 cast separate [Donna] Edwards from Rep. Albert R. Wynn, and elections workers in both counties were busily sorting thousands of provisional ballots yesterday trying to compile final vote totals as quickly as possible.

Officials don't expect to be finished for days.

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In Montgomery, there are between 11,000 and 12,000 provisional ballots to be sorted, Karpinski said, though it is still unclear how many will ultimately be counted. (Officials last week said about 3,000 of those ballots are in the 4th District. In Prince George's County, the number of provisional ballots in the 4th was unknown.)

After the provisional ballots are counted, both counties will move to the
remaining absentee ballots as early as tomorrow.

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Last week, she said she was planning to file suit against Prince George's County elections officials because she was concerned that some votes were not properly safeguarded on election night. But she said yesterday that she was holding off until the counting is done.

"It's more important to me that the votes are counted than how quickly," she said.

It's still "possible" that she could make up the vote gap with the congressman, Edwards said.

Regardless of the outcome, she said, she feels good about the fight she has waged.

"Clearly there were voters who were really trying to speak, and we heard them," she said. She hasn't ruled out a rematch in two years.

I think this is going to be settled in court. And even if Edwards is the victor, we'll still be left with a deplorable infrastructure for voting in this state.