Dismissing attacks as “partisan politics,” Gov. Larry Hogan on Wednesday defended his decision to conduct an “all of the above” election in November, with absentee ballots, early voting and regular polling places open on Election Day.

Under the plan Hogan unveiled on July 8, all Marylanders will receive an application for an absentee ballot rather than a ballot itself.

The decision drew criticism from Democrats in the Maryland General Assembly, Attorney General Brian Frosh and the watchdog group Common Cause Maryland, all of whom argued it would be dangerous to have voters go to the polls in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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