2022 canvass photo
The process to count mail-in ballots from the Primary Election will continue at least through May 24 but it may take longer.
If a mail-in ballot was postmarked on Primary Election Day, it has up to 10 days to be received in order to be counted, which would be Friday, May 24, “and we will still be receiving ballots at that point,” Amie Hoeber, Secretary of the county Board of Elections, said during a media briefing Wednesday.
“We’ll be counting ballots, then, at least through May 24, and our guess is it’ll probably go longer than that — depends on how many people actually mail them in,” Hoeber said.
“That’s not unusual. We counted past that length of time in the last cycle, and we expect, given the increase in mail-in ballots, that’s likely to continue as a pattern for the Board of Elections,” she explained.
Almost 63,000 mail-in ballots have been received back so far, county Board of Elections President David Naimon said. 134,824 mail-in ballots were requested in total.
The mail-in ballot canvass resumes 10 a.m. Thursday at Montgomery College Germantown. Bipartisan teams currently plan to meet everyday except Sunday between now and May 25, Naimon said.
The public may attend in person or watch live the canvasses. Visit the County Board of Elections website here to find the canvass schedule and the livestream links.
