By Cat Murphy, Charlotte Ormond, Calista Sybrant, Faith Harris
Capital News Service
WASHINGTON — Maryland lawmakers, activists and other leaders championed voting rights protections and voter mobilization efforts at one of the largest public policy conferences focused on issues affecting Black Americans.
“Voting rights, we know, right now are under siege,” U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., said Friday. “And we’re going to protect it with everything we have.”
Alsobrooks and other Marylanders were among the thousands of attendees last week at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 55th Annual Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C. The five-day conference included discussions on topics ranging from AI safety to economic concerns, but voting issues were a central theme ahead of elections this November.
Gov. Wes Moore, who spoke on several panels at the conference, criticized what he called the White House’s efforts to manipulate elections, not only for this year’s midterm elections, but also for the 2028 presidential election.
“This was not about a singular election,’’ Moore told Capital News Service. “This was about our entire election system.”
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