May 31st, 2018 by WCBC Radio
Maryland Democratic gubernatorial candidate Valerie Ervin continued her push on Thursday to get her name on the primary election ballot.
Ervin had been the lieutenant governor running mate for Kevin Kamenetz, who was a leading Democratic contender for governor. After Kamenetz died of a sudden cardiac arrest on May 10, Ervin decided to take his place at the top of the ticket, as state law allows. She picked Marisol Johnson, a former Baltimore County school board member, to be her running mate.
State elections officials have said it’s too late to reprint the paper ballots to replace Kamenetz’s name with Ervin’s name before the primary election, scheduled for June 26. The state has decided to post signs in polling locations listing all of the gubernatorial candidates, and instructing voters that ballots cast for Kamenetz would count for Ervin.
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