(BALTIMORE – August 17, 2026) — Baltimore City’s June 23rd primary election is over; the ballots have been counted, and there is a clear winner… VOTER SUPPRESSION. Only 18.9 percent of eligible Baltimore City voters showed up. That’s not a typo, and it’s not a fluke. I know this to be true because after working early voting polls from 7 am to 8 pm for a week, I can attest that the average voter was over 45 years old. I did not see many young voters or voters my age. That means a lot of people either voted by mail or did not vote at all! This is the lowest turnout this city has produced in almost 20 years. You have to go back to the 2010 midterm cycle to find a primary this quiet. Statewide, Maryland’s turnout was 24 percent. In Baltimore County, it was 27 percent. Cecil County was the only jurisdiction in Maryland that did worse than we did. Let that sink in: on a night when the residents of Baltimore City had the chance to fight back against our current leadership in the White House, decide who runs our schools, our courts, our neighborhoods’ safety, and our tax dollars, 4 out of every 5 eligible voters didn’t cast a ballot. This isn’t new. Other than a few primary election cycles when a hotly contested state’s attorney race pulled people to the polls, turnout among eligible Baltimore City voters has fallen nearly every single election since 2000. We didn’t stumble into this. We were walked into it, one low-turnout election at a time, by a system that has quietly convinced people their vote in a primary doesn’t matter. On Saturday, June 20th, during the heat of my campaign, and three days before the primary, I was involved in a horrible car accident on McClean Blvd. A young driver in a Honda coupe, with Virginia temporary tags and no insurance, caused me to total my car. That’s a whole other story in itself, LOL. While I am safe and healed today, that was not the case at the scene. I was in excruciating pain and had a bruise the size of a cantaloupe on my left leg. When responding firefighters arrived, I was glad to see them, but that soon would turn into anger. Still in full campaign mode, with signs taped to the windows of my damaged vehicle and literature strewn everywhere inside, I used the opportunity to possibly earn a vote. While talking to the Black male first responders from BPD about my campaign, the first thing one of them said was, “I don’t vote. That s*** don’t change nothing in Baltimore.” Taken aback, I tried to explain how politics affect everyday life, including his employment and benefits. He was not moved and doubled down on his argument that voting in Baltimore City is futile. He said, “They’re gonna do what they want anyway.” I spent a few more sentences trying to sway him just to…

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