You Get Two Votes for Delegate. Here Is What the Second One Can Do.

District 9A sends two delegates to Annapolis and every voter gets two votes. In the 2026 election I am the only unaffiliated name on any General Assembly…

On November 3, District 9A voters elect two delegates, and every voter gets two votes. I am asking for one of them. In 2022, the second seat in this district was decided by 113 votes out of 66,168 cast. In a race that close, a second vote is never wasted. Five names, two pairs, and one more When you reach House of Delegates on your ballot, you will see five names. The first four run as two pairs, one pair from each party. The fifth name is mine, listed as Unaffiliated. In the 2026 election, it is the only unaffiliated name printed on any General Assembly ballot in Maryland. I wrote about how it got there in One Name. This post is about what it means for your second vote. The short version: it is the reason I can make you a promise the other four cannot. Why a delegate with no caucus works differently A delegate elected as part of a party pair arrives in Annapolis with a caucus behind them, and that caucus decides a lot quietly: which bills get a hearing, which get a vote, and which wait until the session ends. Bills that would lower a cost for a family here rarely lose on the floor in a fair fight. They fail earlier, when they do not fit somebody's plan for the session, and nobody has to go on record killing them. I will arrive with no bloc. Every bill I carry will need votes from members of both parties. I am not going to pretend that is easy. It is also the point. No leadership office can tell me to kill a good bill because the wrong people wrote it, and no one can trade my vote for something that has nothing to do with Ellicott City, Clarksville, Woodbine, Damascus or Clarksburg. So I will work with both sides, and I will judge every bill by what it does for this district, not by which party filed it. What I am focused on Utility bills that keep climbing. School…