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All Democrat race and they still commit voter fraud.

Via Baltimore Sun:

State Board of Elections officials on Thursday ordered the results of Baltimore’s primary elections decertified — and launched a precinct-level review of irregularities.

Linda H. Lamone, the administrator of the State Board of Elections, said she became concerned when city officials found 80 provisional ballots that had not been analyzed, and an unusually high discrepancy between the number of voters who checked in at polling places and the number of ballots cast. The number of ballots cast at the polls was higher than the number of check-ins at the polls, she said.

Lamone said state officials were working to determine the exact size of the problem. She expected the investigation to stretch into next week.

“Baltimore City was not able to investigate and resolve these issues to our satisfaction,” Lamone said. “We are doing a precinct-level review. We are doing this in fairness to the candidates and the voters.”

Baltimore’s primary elections produced a number of close races. State Sen. Catherine E. Pugh defeated former Mayor Sheila Dixon in the Democratic primary for mayor by more than 2,400 votes, and three City Council races were decided by a few hundred votes.

For more than a week, a group of activists has been raising concerns about the integrity of the election. Among the issues: Eight data files went missing for about a day after the election, and some polling precincts opened late. Thirty-four released felons — eligible to vote under a new law — also received a Board of Elections letter before the election erroneously telling them they might not be able to vote.

A activist group, which called itself VOICE, held a news conference Thursday to call for the head of the city’s elections director, Armstead Jones Sr., to be held accountable.

“It gives us great pleasure to know the voters of the city of Baltimore’s voices were heard all the way down in Annapolis,” activist Hassan Giordano said. “Unfortunately however it’s another stain on the city of Baltimore because of the gross negligence that we’ve seen. … “At the end of the day somebody’s head needs to roll and that just happens to be the director.”

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