Some things depend upon technology.

The major obstacle to extending early voting to the Sunday before Election Day are the 36 hours needed to download data between 7 pm on Sunday and 7 am on Tuesday.

In Baltimore City, for example, there are five early voting centers for the week of early voting but hundreds of polling places on Election Day.  To avoid fraud, the data on who voted early must be downloaded to thousands of electronic voting books.

That’s a very time consuming and costly process, according to a study of early voting conducted by the University of Baltimore’s Schaefer Center, in response to the Sunday voting legislation that I introduced last year.

To get a second opinion, I wrote a friend in the information technology field, “I welcome your thoughts on this analysis and the extent to which these concerns are likely to be addressed by the 2016 Presidential election.”

Some things happen by chance.

Walking to the post office on Church Circle, I saw the lobbyist for the newspaper industry.

She told me that they hope to have a national expert to testify next week on my legislation that would extend Maryland’s reporter’s shield law to bloggers who are not employed by a media company.

That was on my list of things to do.  My staff won’t have to conduct that search now.