* May 27 and June 2: The primary was originally scheduled for April 28 but, since Republicans weren't in charge of both houses of the state house, it was decided that saving lives was more important than doing some special election like they did in Wisconsin. Accordingly, the primary was rescheduled for June 2 when it was presumed Covid-19 would be well handled. Of course the federal response was scattered and the problems continued so Maryland decided to send out absentee ballots to everyone with pre-paid return envelopes. Republicans have been opposed to this since that might make people more likely to vote but it worked fine in Maryland, where you could vote absentee -- and either mail in your ballot or show up in person -- or you could vote in person. Surprisingly, many (like me) dropped off our ballot at the designated voting place and others were still okay waiting in line in masks. Democracy was still working despite our slide into banana republic land.
* September 30: The early voting drop boxes are back.
* October 26: I had requested a mail-in ballot but as it became clearer that Republicans were trying to steal the election, I thought it important to vote in person even though Maryland wasn't a toss-up state.
* October 31: I came out on the first Saturday of early voting hoping there would be a line but there wasn't one. Sigh.
* November 3: Final voting day. I had accidentally showed up to photograph wearing a Hawaiian shirt which made some people view me with suspicion, thinking I might be one of Trump's voter intimidation thugs.
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