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Why Maryland Voters Are Turning To Vote By Mail
7Newswire
03 May 2021, 19:42 GMT+10
Maryland is home to more than 6 million people, 4.1 million of which are eligible to vote. A report released on October 20, 2020, revealed over 2.3 million eligible Maryland residents opted to put their voting rights to work. Out of 2,323,770 voters 1,628,113 (40 percent) sent in mail-in ballots for the 2020 presidential general election.
Why More Maryland Voters Are Requesting Main-In Ballots?
There is no doubt, millions of Americans are dedicated, voters. Unfortunately, governments do not make voting easy. In fact, some American voters have admitted to standing in lines for hours before finally getting to the voting machine.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) this week signed legislation repealing the state’s Civil War-era song that referred to President Lincoln as tyrant and a despot.”
Hogan on Tuesday signed the measure, calling it a “relic of the Confederacy, which is clearly outdated and out of touch.”
“Maryland, My Maryland” was written by a Confederate sympathizer, James Ryder Randall, in 1861 and was set to the tune of “O Tannenbaum.”
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It was inspired by a poem written following the Pratt Street Riot, where Southern sympathizers attacked the
6th Massachusetts Infantry
as they marched through Baltimore on their way to Washington, D.C. NPR noted that the violence occurred just days before the opening shots of the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter.