Quick Newsflash: The Baltimore Sun is reporting that the trial schedule for the Fannie Lou Hamer Maryland redistricting lawsuit may have an impact on the April 2012 Primary Election date:
Interesting. Maryland Juice will keep tabs on the potential for a shifting election date.
The U.S. District Court for Maryland has released a schedule for its handling of a challenge to Gov. Martin O'Malley's redistricting plan that could challenge state election officials' ability to conduct the April 3 primary as scheduled....
If the judges decide to throw out the map adopted by the General Assembly during its recent special session and to draw their own, the State Board of Elections would almost certainly have to seek a delay in the primary election....
The lawsuit is being financed by the conservative Legacy Foundation and has the support of the Maryland Republican Party....
Linda Lamone, director of the state elections board, said the schedule could test the agency's ability to hold the primary on April 3....
Lamone explained that the most important deadline is the federal requirement that the state mail out military absentee ballots at least 45 days before the primary. In the case of an April 3 primary, that means they must go out by Feb. 17, she said....
Interesting. Maryland Juice will keep tabs on the potential for a shifting election date.
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