Almost 4 in 10 election-judge jobs in Maryland are vacant. Officials are begging Hogan to change his
More than 1,000 additional Maryland poll workers have dropped out over the past week, leaving the state with little more than 60 percent of the election judges it needs and boosting pressure on Gov. Larry Hogan to abandon plans to open every voting precinct.
After dire warnings from local elections administrators on Wednesday, the Maryland State Board of Elections scheduled a Friday vote to ask Hogan (R) to change course and open as few as 90 large voting centers statewide — instead of 1,848 neighborhood precincts.
Dismayed by long lines and delays in the June 2 primary, Hogan had pledged the usual number of in-person voting options for the Nov. 3 election, despite the novel coronavirus pandemic.
“The success or failure of this election is in your hands,” David Garreis, president of the Maryland Association of Election Officials, told the state board Wednesday as he delivered the sobering statistics about election-judge dropouts.
Local election administrators are planning for a “high probability the public health crisis will worsen in September and October, and election judges will begin to quit en masse,” Garreis said. “Once the majority of the election judges quit, there is not going to be a backup.”
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but sorry to say this seems to have been politicized for quite a while (from BOTH sides.) 
but instead we got APPLICATIONS for absentee ballots. 
Now my anxiety isn't going through the roof about my vote.
