Elections

Experts, however, warn the technology isn’t ready

The District’s primary election season has started and campaigns have adjusted to the ongoing presence of the coronavirus, which has influenced how voters continue to be engaged.

Two new candidates, a neighborhood leader and the former budget director for former-mayor Vincent Gray, tell Axios they will jump into D.C.'s fast-growing Ward 3 Council race.

Sabel Harris is still a relative newcomer to D.C. politics, with just over a year of experience as an advisory neighborhood commissioner under her belt before launching a bid for the Ward 1 Council seat. Yet she’s already earned the…

D.C. Council member Mary Cheh’s abrupt decision to not seek re-election has turned a sleepy contest into one of the city’s hottest races.

Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh said Friday that she won’t seek a fifth term after serving 16 years on the District’s legislative branch.

Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh suddenly ended her bid for a fifth term on Friday, opening up a free-for-all in a contest she was expected to easily win.

“Many people have reevaluated their lives during the pandemic, and that has been the case for me as well,” she says in an email to supporters.

D.C. Council member Mary M. Cheh (D-Ward 3) is ending her campaign for a fifth consecutive term and will no longer seek reelection, she said Friday.

D.C. Councilmember Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) is dropping her bid for a fifth term in the city’s legislature, unexpectedly opening up a race that she had been raising funds for since last year and was largely favored to win.

A years-long bureaucratic snafu has imperiled D.C.’s membership in a multi-state system that checks the accuracy of states’ voter rolls, raising the possibility that D.C. could become the first jurisdiction in the country to be formally…

Fletcher is lagging behind other major candidates in the cash race.

D.C. mayoral candidate and At-Large Councilmember Robert White on Wednesday released a list of policy proposals aimed at preventing and reducing violence — the first and most comprehensive plan he’s put forward during his campaign.

On a chilly Sunday, Robert White, the at-large council member running for mayor, managed to find that rare voter willing to answer the door during a pandemic and listen to his pitch that the city needs a new leader.

Harry Thomas Jr., who ended his comeback bid for the Ward 5 D.C. Council seat this week, said he is considering endorsing a former D.C. government staffer in the highly competitive contest.

The former Ward 5 councilmember dropped out of the race for his old seat and announced a run to join D.C.’s shadow delegation.

So far, the D.C. mayoral race has turned into a referendum on the Bowser administration, especially as it relates to its stewardship of public schools during the pandemic and how it addresses District residents’ economic woes.

Harry Thomas Jr. has dropped out of the Ward 5 council race and will instead run for shadow representative for D.C. in the U.S. House of Representatives, he said Tuesday evening.

Nate Fleming, a candidate for a D.C. Council seat, reported that he was carjacked Saturday at a gas station in Northeast Washington.

White will challenge Mayor Muriel Bowser and Council member Robert White (D-At Large), and several others, in the mayoral Democratic primary that will take place on June 21.