WHITLEY v. STATE BD. OF ELECTIONS

No. 133, September Term, 2011.

55 A.3d 37 (2012)

429 Md. 132

Dennis WHITLEY III, et al., v. MARYLAND STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS, et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

October 23, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan S. Shurberg (Jonathan S. Shurberg, P.C., Silver Spring, MD), on brief, for appellants.

Joseph E. Sandler ( Amanda S. La Forge and Elizabeth F. Getman of Sandler, Reiff, Young & Lamb, P.C., Washington, DC), on brief, for appellants.

Julia Doyle Bernhardt , Asst. Atty. Gen. ( Douglas F. Gansler , Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Jeffrey L. Darsie , and Jennifer L. Katz , Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore, MD), on brief, for appellees.

Paul J. Orfanedes (Chris Fedeli of Judicial Watch, Inc., Washington, DC), on brief, for appellees.

Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, BARBERA, McDONALD, JJ.


HARRELL, J.

This case comes to us through the courtesy of fairly recent advancements in the field of information technology,1 as applied to the increasingly popular use in Maryland of voter petitions seeking to place questions before the electorate on a ballot. See generally Md.Code (2002, 2010 Repl. Vol.), Election Law Article, §§ 7-101-7-105; Doe v. Md. State Bd. of Elections, 428 Md. 596

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