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Maryland Lt Gov rejects Trump’s corruption claims over mail-in voting error: ‘It happens’
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Maryland Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller pushed back on President Donald Trump’s call for a Justice Department investigation into a state mail-in ballot error, rejecting allegations of corruption and arguing election administration mistakes occur in almost «every election.»
Trump called for the DOJ to open an investigation into some Maryland voters receiving incorrect mail-in ballots for the upcoming primary elections after election officials admitted to an error by the state’s election board. This prompted Trump to put the blame on Democrat Gov. Wes Moore, accusing him of corruptly interfering with the election process to ensure a win for Democrats.
The Maryland State Board of Elections announced that it had been «made aware of an error by our mail-in ballot vendor,» Taylor Print & Visual Impressions (TPVI), Inc.
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«This was done by the Corrupt Governor of the State, Wes Moore,» Trump wrote on Truth Social May 18. «He allowed this to happen in order to make sure that Democrats win.
Miller told Fox News Digital the Maryland State Board of Elections operates independently from the governor’s administration and characterized ballot distribution errors as a recurring issue in election administration.
Maryland Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller pushed back on President Donald Trump’s allegations of corruption tied to the state’s recent mail-in ballot error after Trump called for a Justice Department investigation into the incident. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call; Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)
«The administration, they’re a separate body from us, the Board of Elections,» Miller said.
«And it happens, sometimes,» she continued. «Ballots get mailed the wrong way. It happens almost in every election.»
While election administration errors have occurred in Maryland, including a voter roll software glitch in 2018, there is no publicly available evidence showing that incorrect mail ballots are an «every election» occurrence.
The state elections board will send out new ballots to all voters who were mailed one before May 14, acknowledging that many voters receiving new ballots may not have been affected by the mishap.
The state elections board said there was «no risk of duplicate voting as a result of this issue,» claiming the state has safeguards in place to avoid this from happening.
Trump also questioned how the issue would be resolved without any potential threat of duplicate voting.
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President Donald Trump called for the DOJ to open an investigation into some Maryland voters receiving incorrect mail-in ballots for the upcoming primary elections. (Evan Vucci-Pool/Getty Images)
«In Maryland, they sent out 500,000 Illegal Mail In Ballots, and they got caught!» Trump wrote on Truth Social. «So now, they’re going to send out 500,000 more Mail In Ballots, but nobody knows what’s happening with the first 500,000 they sent.
«In addition, many of these Ballots went to Democrats, so any Republican running in Maryland doesn’t have a chance!»
Miller rejected the idea that this issue was intentional or was the result of corruption within the state.
«I don’t think it was in malice, in any bad way that this happened,» she told Fox News Digital. «I think it was just error by the vendor.»
State Administrator of Elections Jared DeMarinis also denied Trump’s claim that any «illegal» ballots were distributed.
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Maryland State Administrator of Elections Jared DeMarinis has defended the state elections board’s response to an unspecified number of Maryland residents receiving the wrong mail-in ballot. (Karl Merton Ferron/The Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service)
Trump said he has asked Attorney General Todd Blanche and the Justice Department to investigate the ballot error, but the DOJ has not publicly announced the opening of an investigation.
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Miller also said she has not had any information shared with her by the DOJ into what the investigation will entail.
«We’ll see what the investigation shows,» Miller said.
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Arkansas takes home top ranking for religious freedom after Gov Sanders expands key protections
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FIRST ON FOX: Arkansas has been ranked the nation’s top state for religious liberty after Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a series of laws expanding faith protections that helped lift the state to the top.
Earning a score of 89.2%, Arkansas became one of only two states to earn the First Liberty Institute’s annual Religious Liberty in the States index’s first-ever «excellent» rating. The index evaluates states using 50 legal protections across 20 religious liberty safeguards spanning education, healthcare, family law, economic activity and other areas of daily life.
«Religious liberty is America’s First Freedom, and Arkansas is leading the nation in protecting it,» Sanders said.
«Our rights come from God, not government, and every American should be free to live according to their faith and conscience. We’ll continue defending that freedom and ensuring the Natural State remains the best place in the country to live, work and worship.»
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Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders participates in the first-ever National Outdoor Recreation Executive Forum hosted by Outdoor Recreation Roundtable at Decatur House on May 7, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Outdoor Recreation Roundtable)
The Natural State climbed six spots from last year’s rankings after lawmakers approved several measures expanding legal protections for religious exercise and conscience rights.
Arkansas’ rise was driven largely by Act 677, legislation Sanders signed last year that bars state and local governments from penalizing people, businesses and religious organizations for acting according to their religious beliefs regarding marriage and biological sex.
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A group of people hold hands in prayer. Arkansas topped a new religious liberty index after expanding faith and conscience protections. (iStock)
The state’s religious liberty push also included the Conscience Protection Act, signed by Sanders in 2023, which expanded Arkansas’ Religious Freedom Restoration Act by prohibiting state government discrimination against religious organizations based on their religious identity or status.
Kelly Shackelford, president, CEO and chief counsel at First Liberty, said other states should follow Arkansas’ lead and «strengthen religious liberty protections in their own states.»
«Religious liberty is best protected when leaders are willing to act before the rights of people of faith are threatened,» Shackelford said.
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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaking at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 17, 2024. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Dr. Mark David Hall, director of the Religious Liberty in the States project, said Arkansas demonstrates how states can protect what America’s founders called «the sacred right of conscience,» allowing people to practice their faith not just at church, but in their everyday lives.
«States have always served as laboratories of liberty, and this year’s results show why that matters,» Hall said.
Sanders also publicly defended religious freedom in December. She rejected demands from the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a group that advocates for the separation of church and state, to reverse her proclamation closing state offices for Christmas.
In a response letter previously obtained by Fox News Digital, Sanders pushed back on claims it was unconstitutional, saying «only by voicing our own faith and celebrating other faiths can we make our state’s diverse religious communities feel seen and heard.»
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«With this index, citizens and legislators can see where their state is doing well, where it still has room to improve, and which existing laws could help better protect the right of conscience,» Dr. Paul D. Mueller, associate director of the Religious Liberty in the States project, said.
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A Senate Republican added further detail to the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s, R-S.C., final moments thanks to an unlikely connection.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., revealed that it was a former member of his staff that called for medical assistance to aid Graham over the weekend, who died suddenly just after his return from an overseas trip.
«My former scheduler was Lindsey’s scheduler, and one of my staff members was with that scheduler the night Lindsey called,» Tuberville told reporters. «He called [and] basically said, ‘Listen, I’m having chest pains. You know, I need to do something.’ ‘Did you call 911?’ And he goes, ‘No, that’s the reason I called you.’»
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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., stands at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
«And so she called 911 … By the time she got there, 911 had knocked the door down, and they were working on him,» he continued.
A preliminary cause of death was revealed Sunday evening. His office said that the longtime lawmaker had died from «aortic dissection due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.»
Aortic dissection is when a tear occurs in the inner wall of the aorta, the body’s main artery, and is a life-threatening medical emergency.
«Lindsey basically worked himself to death, most of us have families, he didn’t have any family,» Tuberville said. «And if we had a couple of days off, he went to that airport, and he went somewhere to try to work out something for our country.»
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Axios reported that in one of Graham’s final conversations, he told an unnamed source that he was feeling unwell but wanted to wait until after his scheduled appearance on NBC’s «Meet the Press» to seek medical attention.
«I can’t die now. I still need to do the Russia sanctions, get Iran sorted out and do Israeli-Saudi normalization,» Graham said.
His death has rocked the Senate, where emotional tributes rolled in throughout the day on Monday, the upper chamber’s first day back in Washington, D.C., since recessing for the Fourth of July.
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., speaks to reporters as he returns to his office at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 10, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Graham’s desk in the Senate, which is where the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., his close friend, once sat, was draped with a black veil and a glass bowl of sharp white roses atop it.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., in an emotional tribute to the late lawmaker, said that the «halls of the Senate already feel empty without him.»
«I am comforted by the knowledge that, in the end, he has just changed his address. And that one day, Mr. President,» Thune said through tears. «We will laugh together again.»
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Graham will be succeeded, temporarily, by his sister, Darline Graham Nordone. She is slated to be sworn in to the position on Tuesday after being tapped by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster to fill in for her late brother.
«I think this is what Lindsey would have wanted, and I plan to honor him in this way,» Nordone said during the ceremony in Columbia, South Carolina. «Now to Lindsey, I miss you more than I can even put into words. But I’m going to do this, I got it.»
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