Maryland Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox and the Board of Elections are locked in a legal battle over mail-in ballots In dueling legal filings, Republican candidate Dan Cox and the Maryland Board of Elections are disagreeing over when mail-in ballots should be counted. Cox spoke to reporters after a Montgomery County Circuit Court hearing Tuesday (September 20, 2022) in which his lawyers opposed a move by the state elections board to start counting mail-in ballots before Election Day.
Cox’s lawyer Ed Hartman told Judge James Bonifant that the legislature knew counting could be a problem and that the situation was the “opposite” of an electoral emergency that would require the kind of change the elections board is requesting.