Early voting in Maryland's 2026 primary election ended Thursday, as hundreds of thousands of ballots have already been cast across Maryland. Despite a ballot mix-up by the State's vendor, the State Board of Elections (SBE) has maintained that all ballots and voting is safe. The vendor sent nearly 500,000 incorrect ballots to voters. Republicans received Democrat ballots and Democrats received Republican ballots. The SBE said new, correct ballots were issued and made it very clear there was an error.