Ron Moten will not be voting for Mitt Romney, but he’s a huge Chris Christie fan
Activist/political candidate/gadfly/media darling Ronald Moten is generally a straight-shooting, tell-’em-like-it-is kind of guy. But since launching his “Civil Rights Republican” campaign for the Ward...
View ArticleInside D.C.’s early vote
Elections officials report that 52,739 District residents cast early votes by the time polls closed Saturday night. That last day saw nearly 12,000 voters come to the polls, creating waits of three...
View ArticleIt’s the Obama Barry White party!
While I’d be tickled to attend any party involving the President of the United States and the dearly departed bass crooner, the “Obama-Barry-White Watch Party” is not that. It is merely the Election...
View ArticleIt’s Election Day in D.C.
If you weren’t one of the 52,739 District residents who cast an early vote or one of the 15,000 who requested an absentee ballot, today’s the day to get yourself down to your local polling place and...
View ArticleD.C. election returns watch
Coming to you live from the second floor of One Judiciary Square, from the friendly confines of the D.C. Board of Elections boardroom, stay right here for the District returns as they come in. We’re...
View ArticleMapping David Grosso’s D.C. Council victory
Here’s what David Grosso’s victory over Michael A. Brown looks like, geographically speaking. In a pattern similar to the 2010 mayoral primary, the 2011 at-large special election and the 2012 at-large...
View ArticleWhere did Calvin H. Gurley find 57,119 votes?
If there was a surprise result in Tuesday’s election returns — aside from David Grosso’s not-particularly-shocking dispatch of incumbent at-large D.C. Council member Michael A. Brown — it was that...
View ArticleDemocrats start jockeying for at-large D.C. Council seat
And you thought the election was over. Nov. 6 has come and gone, but election season rolls on in the District of Columbia. In less than a month, local Democratic officials will gather to select an...
View ArticleD.C.’s closest ANC races are now less close
Public attention largely went elsewhere on Election Day, but there was no tougher electoral battleground than Advisory Neighborhood Commission 6E, where two of seven seats came down to a single vote in...
View ArticleD.C. elections chief has few answers on long voting lines
More than a month after some District residents waited in hours-long lines to cast ballots during early voting and on Election Day, D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) thought that by now the...
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