Unaffiliated voters ask judge to let their challenge to partisan primaries proceed
- Maryland Forward
- Oct 8
- 1 min read
BY: BRYAN P. SEARS
Maryland Matters
“Lawsuit argues current system of state-funded party primaries disenfranchises close to 1 million unaffiliated voters…
A lawyer representing five unaffiliated voters is asking an Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge to deny a motion to dismiss their suit challenging a state law that limits the participation of unaffiliated voters in Maryland primary elections...
“This case, at its core, is a voting rights case,” Rutherford wrote on behalf of his clients. “It is not, as defendants suggest, a case brought to assert some violation of the Maryland Election law and to challenge a particular election outcome. Nor is it a taxpayer case.”
Instead, Rutherford said his clients are asserting that primary elections for the Democratic and Republican parties should not be paid for with tax dollars if nearly 1 million unaffiliated voters in the state cannot participate...”
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