Where it appears that the standards of due diligence for appointing someone to the Maryland State Board of Elections does not involve checking to see if they were ever involved in an attempt to overthrow the government of the United States of America.
I would kind of understand this happening in Alabama, or Mississippi, or Texas, or our neighbor to the south Virginia, but the Free State was on the side of the union during the Civil War.
Step up your game, nimrods:
A Republican member of the Maryland State Board of Elections resigned from his post Thursday after being charged with participating in breaching the U.S. Capitol amid rioting on Jan. 6, 2021.
Carlos Ayala was arrested on multiple charges on Tuesday, according to federal court records. His resignation was official on Thursday, according to a statement from Michael G. Summers, chairman of the elections board.
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Ayala could not be reached for comment. His attorney, Jim Trusty, declined to comment. Trusty previously represented former President Donald J. Trump in one of his court cases.
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Federal prosecutors charged Ayala in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., with the felony charge of civil disorder as well as multiple misdemeanors in connection with the pro-Donald Trump mob that overran the Capitol as lawmakers were certifying the results of the 2020 election.
Prosecutors allege that Ayala, wearing a hooded American flag sweatshirt, is seen on footage from the day climbing over police barricades and reaching the Upper West Terrace of the Capitol building.
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She [Maryland Republican Party Chairwoman Nicole Bues Harris] added that Ayala resigned to ensure that the 2024 election in Maryland is not “muddled with distraction.”
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The good-government watchdog group Common Cause Maryland said Ayala’s arrest should be a wake-up call for state officials, who should consider changing the process for appointing members to the elections board.
“It is sickening to think that Ayala was making decisions about our elections after allegedly participating in the attempted insurrection,” Morgan Drayton, Common Cause policy manager, said in a statement.
The fact that he got caught does not mean that the system worked.
As Randall Munroe has noted under similar circumstances, this should never have happened at all.
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