Maryland high court keeps Question 3 measure on ballot

Maryland’s highest court ruled that Question 3, a proposed congressional redistricting amendment, can remain on the November ballot — but the justices ordered election officials to rewrite the ballot language because they found the original wording misleading. Two lower-court judges had previously found problems with how the measure was put before voters, but the Supreme Court of Maryland gave both sides a partial victory. The court rejected arguments that missed election-law deadlines and single-issue concerns required the measure to be removed, but agreed with Republican challengers that voters were not being clearly told what the amendment would do. The rewritten language will make clear that “nothing in the Maryland Constitution provides applicable criteria” for congressional district boundaries.