Republican nominee to state elections board heads to full Senate

A Maryland Republican Party nominee to the State Board of Elections will be recommended for confirmation to the full Senate despite concerns about a social media post and emails attributed to her. The Senate Executive Nominations Committee voted 12-3 Monday night to send Diane Butler, an Ellicott City resident, to the full Senate. The floor vote could come later this week. The committee held Butler’s nomination for two weeks over concerns about hyper-partisanship and her views on the integrity of recent state elections. “I think the correspondence, just to me,...