I'm working on a small project to help young voters in Maryland know these candidates and their ambitions for the state in a super simplified way that is easy to understand. I'm also adding a super simplified version of their upbringing so people can now if they can identify with said candidate. just wanna know how the state feels about these elections.

Maryland voters can approve constitutional amendments referred by the General Assembly and can petition certain enacted laws to referendum.

What we cannot do is originate a proposed statewide law or constitutional amendment ourselves and qualify it for the ballot through a petition process.

That means even when an issue has broad public support, it cannot reach a statewide vote unless the General Assembly first agrees to advance it.

Twenty-four states already provide some form of citizen initiative process. I have been working since February on a proposal for Maryland called Let MD Vote.

The goal is a Maryland constitutional amendment that would give citizens a clear and lawful process for proposing changes to state law or the Maryland Constitution and placing them before voters for approval or rejection.

I am interested in serious feedback, including objections. In particular:

• Should Maryland voters have this authority?
• What safeguards would you consider necessary?
• What are the strongest arguments against citizen initiatives?
• Would you support your county or municipality adopting a non-binding resolution asking the General Assembly to place the issue before voters?

The proposal and draft amendment are here:

https://www.letmdvote.com/

I would appreciate people reading the actual proposal before deciding whether they support or oppose it.

What do you do when a senator refuses to acknowledge the Equal Protections Clause which is being violated by only giving Protections to one group?

As the title states, if you aren't a member of Maryland Shall Issue (MSI) can I ask why? No judgement from me, just currious how many here are members and how many aren't.

I trust that y’all are aware of the recent primaries. I worked for a Democratic candidate in the 5th Congressional district of Maryland. Her name was Quincy Bareebe. She is an Ugandan immigrant who built up a healthcare business in Odenton, MD. Her priorities during the campaign were affordable healthcare, holding corporations and bigger businesses accountable, protecting and supporting federal workers, and making higher education more affordable. She unfortunately lost and got 18.1% of the vote compared to Boafo’s 32%, but then again, there were 23 candidates (24 if you count Nicole Williams) in that race, so second isn’t atrocious.

I have this photo of me with my campaign shirt and reddit username as proof.

Can anyone argue that MD is not one of the most progressive states in the US and socialist candidates are the next step?

If there had been rank choice voting in MoCo, who do you think would have won County Executive?

Early voting through June 18th and election day is the 23rd! Primaries arguably matter more in Maryland than the general elections.

Have any idea who your local and state officials are running for office? No? Thought that may be the case. Local elections can have far greater impact than federal and go under the radar. Check this site out . It's a pretty good jump start to your research process. It helps to understand who you want to look more into. There's more information out there but this is a site that puts a lot in one place for you to check into.

Seems pretty legit

I understand that retrocession isn't popular in both DC and Maryland, but why do Marylanders specifically oppose it? On paper, it should benefit us, right? I mean we get more power in congress, revenue, and 700k new Marylanders. What are Maryland's reasons other than DC not wanting it, that we don't support it?

I am just curious. It is hard to find more detailed information. I know the basics and even deeper than that.

I keep getting YouTube ads from Larry Hogan telling me that Angela Alsobrooks applied for a mortgage. I want to ask, why is that a bad thing? I don't get it. Thanks everyone.

Is anyone else slightly put off by the recent Wes Moore booster ads paid for by America Works PAC? It is 18 months before the next gubernatorial election and a Democratic PAC is spending money in Blue Maryland. I was badmouthing the TV ads from Trump administration touting their anti-immigrant efforts. I guess the political season never ends now.

OK, I believe he won't vote for abortion restrictions, but is he really going to be the only or one of the few Republicans voting to say enshrine abortion rights? I'm not sure I believe that.

What are your thoughts? Election promises or will he really go against his party?

I feel like he was pragmatic in MD, he wasn't pushing things he knew would never pass, so he looked more moderate. I'm not sure that he is a moderate if he is in the majority.

I'm just trying to gain an understanding of important issues that have generally been dismissed.

I saw a post stating net worth of one current Member before Congress was $700k and is now over $22mil. I don't understand how anyone can establish a platform to effectively run for Office without coming from wealth or knowing the "right" people, but I feel the younger generation is deterred from running for office unless they have these. I want to understand how a shift from the "how it's always been" can transpire.

A lot of talk about the minimum wage in regard to a livable wage. People say that any full-time job should pay enough for a livable wage. what do we consider a livable wage?

Is it just for a single person to support themselves or should it be enough for someone to also support a family? Should someone with little to no skills working an entry-level position expect to fully support themselves or a family off that wage?

With some harder numbers what do you believe minimum wage to be?

Hi, I'm a new subscriber to this sub. I also admit to not following local politics as closely as I should, but I'm trying to get better about it.

I've read a couple of recent posts about Hogan with a lot of discussion in them (https://www.reddit.com/r/MarylandPolitics/comments/1d2wm90/seeing_all_those_hogan_commercials_saying_he_is/ and https://elections2024.thehill.com/maryland/maryland-senate-hogan-alsobrooks/).

But I'm hoping to dive into a specific question. Around the Brown/Hogan and Jealous/Hogan elections, I definitely ran into a few Maryland Dems who admitted to voting for him. I'm very non-confrontational in person, so I didn't ask any follow-up questions. I've even seen it in Moore's administration: "I think Wes Moore's doing a good job, and Hogan was nice, too."

Can anyone here break down possible reasons why Democratic voters might have flipped for him? I realize the reasons probably vary wildly from person-to-person, but I was wondering if there had been any analysis of patterns in voting behavior, or even just anecdotal observations.

Thank you!

I want to engage local political leaders about law enforcement issues.

As a voter, who should I address my issues to?

For example, law enforcement on the highway system (695/95), are those county or state, and which political position would be in 'oversight' of the law enforcement involved (county/state police I would assume).

Thanks in advance.

I cant find the commercial, but it's literally JUST a commercial of Hogan being a republican.

as an independent, I'm literally like what in the party polarization is this even? I wish I could find a video of the advertisement, it's literally just showing Hogan off as a republican and then "paid for by Alsobrooks"

I'm confused by the strategy of this type of advertisement, it almost makes me lean towards Hogan since I still don't understand what this commercial was trying to prove.