Fritszche v. Maryland State Board of Elections

This is an interlocutory appeal to this Court, see Maryland Code (2003, 2006 Cum.Supp.) § 12-203(a)(3) of the Election Law Article (“EL”), 1 from the decision of a Circuit Court in an election dispute. The petitioner, a Maryland resident and registered voter in Baltimore County, is currently a student at a college in New York. Because she is living out-of-state while attending college, she could not vote personally at her precinct polling station during the 2006 Maryland gubernatorial election. Rather, she intended to vote by absentee ballot. For that intent to be accomplished, her ballot had…