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NOTICE OF ACTION: Per E. L. Articles 2-303 and 2-303.1, the Allegany County Board of Elections will be discussing the 2026 Gubernatorial Election Plan at its meetings scheduled on the following dates: July 1, 2025, August 5, 2025, September 2, 2025, and October 7, 2025 at 9:00am. Topics to be discussed include Ballot Drop Box locations, Early Voting Center location, and Election Day Polling Place locations. The meeting is open to the public and will be held at the Allegany County Complex, 701 Kelly Rd., Rm. 230, Cumberland, MD. Dates are subject to change. Notice will be posted on the website.

January 24, 2025

¹State law requires that election officials manually audit a sample of voted ballots.  This audit must be performed after each general election.  

The Allegany County Board of Elections will conduct the manual ballot audit of the 2024 General Election starting on February 11, 2025 at 10:30am.  This audit may take one day and will take place at the Allegany County Board of Elections, located at 701 Kelly Road, Room 100, Cumberland, MD 21502. The audit is open to the public. 

The Allegany County Board of Elections will manually tally a sample of votes cast for U.S. Senator and compare the results of the manual tally against the results from the voting system. This process will determine whether the voting system accurately counted ballots during the 2024 General Election².

The State Board of Elections randomly selected the early voting center and election day precincts to be audited, and the Allegany County Board of Elections randomly selected the mail in and provisional ballots to be audited.  Starting on February 11, 2025, the Allegany County Board of Elections will manually tally the votes for U.S. Senator on:

1. 627 ballots cast on one scanning unit on the 1 st day of early voting at the Allegany County Office Complex
2. 732 ballots cast on election day in Precinct 013-000
3. 100 mail in ballots 
4. 25 provisional ballots

¹See Election Law Article, §11-309 of the Annotated Code of Maryland.  This requirement was introduced as House Bill 1278 of the 2018 Legislative Session and is reported as Chapter 523 of the 2018 Laws of Maryland.  

²Before the 2024 General Election was certified, the State Board of Elections conducted an automated audit of all of the ballots cast in the 2024 General Election. The results of this audit confirmed the accuracy of the voting system. The results of the automated audit are at: https://elections.maryland.gov/voting_system/ballot_audit_plan_automated.html