Rather than ensuring fair and equal representation, Bill 55-25 egregiously packs Black voters into just two districts while preserving seven solidly white-majority districts—a textbook example of racial gerrymandering designed to dilute Black political power.

The coalition is calling on the Commission to adopt a legally compliant and community-driven “3-1-5” map that ensures fair representation for Black and Brown residents across the county.

After decades of struggle and advocacy, Wicomico County’s Black voters and civil rights organizations closed out Black History Month 2025 with a history-making victory of their own.

Everyone Votes Maryland and Expand the Ballot, Expand the Vote Coalition includes ACLU, Common Cause, NAACP, League of Women Voters, Disability Rights Maryland, League of Conservation Voters, Life After Release, Maryland Justice Project and more

Adding reconciliation to history-making election reform, a landmark settlement was announced today in a federal lawsuit that challenged 200 years of discrimination against Black voters in the Town of Federalsburg.

The ACLU priorities for the 2024 Session of the General Assembly are removing criminal penalties for marijuana, enacting independent investigatory powers for Police Accountability Boards, passing a Maryland Voting Rights Act, and defending the right of children to a lawyer.

Black voters and local organizations filed suit today in federal district court in Baltimore under the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, challenging that the at-large component of the election system for the County Council and Board of Ed are racially discriminatory and limit fair represention.

Seven Black voters joined today with the Caroline County Branch of the NAACP and the Caucus of African American Leaders to file suit in federal district court in Baltimore under the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.