Whitley v. Maryland State Board of Elections

This case comes to us through the courtesy of fairly recent advancements in the field of information technology,1 as applied to the increasingly popular use in Maryland of voter petitions seeking to place questions before the electorate on a ballot. See generally Md.Code (2002, 2010 Repl.Vol.), Election Law Article, §§ 7-101-7-105; Doe v. Md. State Bd. of Elections, 428 Md. 596, 53 A.3d 1111 (2012) (also representing computer-facilitated petitions to submit the Maryland Dream Act to referendum on the 2012 election ballot). Following the passage of Maryland’s latest congressional redistricting…