LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS® OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD VOTERS’ GUIDE 2018 GENERAL ELECTION Tuesday, November 6, 2018 Polls Open 7 AM/Close 8 PM Verify voter registration: Three Ways to Vote! voterservices.elections.maryland.gov /VoterSearch VOTE EARLY Early voting centers are open from Check polling place: 10 AM to 8 PM, Thursday, October 25 voterservices.elections.maryland.gov through Thursday, November 1, 2018. /PollingPlaceSearch Vote at any of the following sites: Odenton Regional Library Deadline to register to vote or 1325 Annapolis Road, Odenton 21113 choose/change party affiliation:* Tuesday, Oct 16, 9 PM Glen Burnie Regional Library 1010 Eastway, Glen Burnie 21060 Early voting dates: Severna Park Community Library 45 W. McKinsey Rd, Severna Park 21146 Oct 25 - Nov 1, 10 AM - 8 PM Roger “Pip” Moyer Recreation Center Deadline to request an 273 Hilltop Lane, Annapolis 21403 absentee ballot: Edgewater Community Library By mail or fax: Tuesday, Oct 30 25 Stepneys Lane, Edgewater 21037 By download: Friday, Nov 2 Crofton Community Library In person: Tuesday, Nov 6 1681 Riedel Road, Crofton 21114 AA County Board of Elections Contact Board of Elections: 6740 Baymeadow Dr, Glen Burnie 21060 (410) 222-6600 [email protected] VOTE ABSENTEE aacounty.org/elections Any Maryland registered voter may vote by absentee ballot. Go to aacounty.org/ Download PDF Voters’ Guide: elections and click on “Request an lwvaacmd.org/vg Absentee Ballot,” or call or email the County Board of Elections. Be sure to Contact LWVAAC: return ballot by stated deadline. [email protected] (443) 672-8270 VOTE ON ELECTION DAY Your local assigned polling place will be For election districts and open from 7 AM to 8 PM on Tuesday, up-to-date election and November 6, General Election Day. Your candidate information: polling place appears on the sample ballot mailed by the Board of Elections. VOTE411.org First time voters in Maryland should *Qualified citizens may register to vote at bring identification showing your current early voting centers. See the back cover address, such as a driver’s license. for more information. v. 3 PUBLICATION DATE: SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 Table of Contents Support Your Local League of Women Voters ........... 13 Maryland Statewide Races Governor/Lt. Governor ............................................. 3 Comptroller .............................................................. 6 Attorney General ..................................................... 7 Federal Senator .................................................................... 9 Representative District 2 ........................................ 14 Representative District 3 ........................................ 17 Representative District 4 ........................................ 18 Representative District 5 ........................................ 20 Maryland General Assembly Senate Legislative District 21 ................................. 24 Senate Legislative District 30 ................................. 25 Senate Legislative District 31 ................................. 26 Senate Legislative District 32 ................................. 27 Senate Legislative District 33 ................................. 28 House of Delegates Legislative District 21 ............. 30 House of Delegates Legislative District 30A ........... 34 House of Delegates Legislative District 30B ........... 35 House of Delegates Legislative District 31A ........... 37 House of Delegates Legislative District 31B ........... 38 House of Delegates Legislative District 32 ............. 40 House of Delegates Legislative District 33 ............. 44 Anne Arundel County Government & Judicial County Executive .................................................... 49 County Council District 1 –7 ................................... 51 Circuit Court Judge ................................................. 60 Judge in Court of Special Appeals .......................... 60 State’s Attorney ..................................................... 61 Clerk of the Circuit Court ........................................ 62 Register of Wills ..................................................... 63 Judge of the Orphans’ Court ................................... 64 Sheriff .................................................................... 65 Anne Arundel County Board of Education District 1 ................................................................ 66 District 4 ................................................................ 67 District 5 ................................................................ 69 District 7 ................................................................ 70 Ballot Questions Statewide ............................................................... 72 County .................................................................... 74 Offices and candidates are listed in ballot order. These abbreviations are used: REP = Republican Party DEM = Democratic Party LBT = Libertarian Party GRN= Green Party UNA = Unaffiliated WRI = Write-in Maryland Statewide Governor/Lt. Governor GOVERNOR DUTIES: The Governor is the chief executive officer of Maryland and appoints judges to the state courts and the heads of statewide departments. The Governor also makes other appointments as provided by the Maryland Constitution or by law and proposes the annual operating and capital budgets to the legislature. The Governor may veto legislation passed by the legislature. SALARY: $180,000 per year. TERM: Four years, limit of two consecutive terms. HOW ELECTED: Elected statewide as a team with the Lt. Governor. LT. GOVERNOR DUTIES: The Lieutenant Governor assists the Governor and is elected jointly on a ballot with the gubernatorial candidate. The Lieutenant Governor fills the office of Governor in case of death, resignation, or disability and carries out specific duties assigned by the Governor. SALARY: $149,500 per year. WEBSITE: see Maryland Manual Online Questions QUALIFICATIONS: How does your experience prepare you for the duties of Governor? BUDGET: What are your priorities for the state budget, particularly regarding education and transportation? REDISTRICTING: What changes, if any, do you support in the process for drawing congressional and legislative district lines in Maryland? ENVIRONMENT: What are the most significant environmental challenges and how will you address them? DISCRIMINATION: What policies will you support to address discrimination based on race, gender, religion, disability, or poverty? HEALTH CARE: What are the most significant health challenges facing Maryland and how will you address them? OTHER PRIORITIES: What are your priorities on issues not covered by the other questions? Candidates Vote for no more than 1. named Marylander of the Year for my pivotal roles in abolishing the death Larry Hogan/Boyd K. Rutherford (REP) penalty, passing the Maryland DREAM Campaign Website: Act, helping pass marriage equality, and www.LarryHogan.com expanding voting rights. Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ BUDGET: As a businessman, I'll also LarryHogan make sure our transportation policies Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ also encourage economic growth and LarryHogan help to create good jobs. We don’t have Campaign Instagram: a money problem when it comes to instagram:@LarryHogan education, we have a priority problem No response received by deadline. and we need a governor who is willing to make education a number one priority. Ben Jealous/Susan Turnbull (DEM) We will fully fund our schools and make Campaign Website: benjealous.com sure lottery and casino revenues Campaign Facebook: facebook.com/ supplement education funding. benjealous/ REDISTRICTING: I believe that Campaign Twitter: twitter.com/ Maryland should lead the fight on BenJealous redistricting reform in a fair and non- Campaign Instagram: @BenJealous partisan manner that does not Campaign Email: [email protected] indefinitely hand control of the House of Campaign Phone: (904) 891-1843 Representatives to Republicans. QUALIFICATIONS: I’ve been a partner in Redistricting compacts such as the one a business or ran large advocacy passed by the Maryland legislature and organizations since I was 26 years old. As a vetoed by Hogan are a fair solution to businessman, I’ve helped to grow small increase the accountability of Congress to businesses in Maryland and across the the voters and reduce gerrymandering. nation. While leading the NAACP, I was ENVIRONMENT: My vision in regards to Page 3 League of Women Voters of Anne Arundel County lwvaacmd.org For candidate photos, updates, election information, and personalized ballots, visit VOTE411.org. Maryland Statewide Governor/Lt. Governor the environment brings together the government does to the people. economy, civil rights, and public health. I BUDGET: Shawn Quinn plans to will build on the surge of clean energy jobs drastically reduce the income tax within and put our state on a path to 100% clean his first two years of office. These tax cuts energy well before 2050 and reverse will be paid for by reducing the role of Trump’s attempts to kill the progress government in areas best handled by we’ve made on cleaning up the private-public partnerships. Shawn wants Chesapeake Bay. Bill McKibben, Friends of to achieve cost savings in education by the Earth Action, and 350.org have all leveraging technology throughout. This endorsed my campaign. includes everything from computers in the DISCRIMINATION: I’ve dedicated my classroom up to entire virtual schools. life to service and I have a long track REDISTRICTING: