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Brief filed over invalidated signitures
February 1, 2010
Maryland: Backers of a proposed referendum in the state of Maryland, in 2009 have filed a brief over the invalidation of a significant number of signatures on the referendum. In 2009 the Howard County Board of Elections threw out roughly 87 percent of all signatures based on an interpretation of a Maryland Court of Appeals decision that led them to believe that signatures are invalid if they are not exact matches to signatures used for voter registration. The proponents filed a lawsuit in the Federal District Court that failed in October of 2009.[1]
Footnotes
Federal courts:
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of Maryland • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of Maryland
State courts:
Maryland Supreme Court • Appellate Court of Maryland • Maryland District Courts • Maryland Circuit Courts • Maryland Orphans' Court
State resources:
Courts in Maryland • Maryland judicial elections • Judicial selection in Maryland
