Elections

With so much uncertainty about election results, local news organizations emphasize patience.

Lidel Smith is 82, and he’s never missed an election since he was eligible to vote. He says his grandfather, who couldn’t vote, drilled the importance of casting a ballot into him.

Black voters are being flooded with targeted disinformation and racialized messages attempting to suppress the vote in the final days of the election, researchers from D.C.’s Howard University said.

He's got support from Jack Evans, Harry Thomas Jr., John Ray, Harold Brazil, and Sandra Allen, to name a few.

Isaac Smith had been talking to voters in the streets of a historic Black D.C. neighborhood for barely 10 minutes before a passerby shouted a warning.

ANC 7F07, the single member district that includes the D.C. Jail, hasn’t had a commissioner since it was created in 2012

As the city readies itself for the election in a few days, a number of organizers are planning demonstrations in D.C. on and around November 3.

The primary election was a mess, but the voting process has since improved.

On Oct. 27, when in-person voting started in D.C., we went to the Entertainment and Sports Arena. We met with residents from neighborhoods in wards 7 and 8 to learn about their experiences voting in this year’s election. The Congress…

There’s no question that voting is critical — but when and how you vote is also important, and D.C.’s Board of Elections is asking residents to hit the polls early.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser promised that the city will stay safe during the 2020 election — regardless of who the next president is.

With less than a week until Election Day, elections officials in Maryland and the District are urging voters to put mail-in ballots into drop boxes, saying that with U.S. Postal Service delays, it may be too late to return them by mail.

The 31-year-old developer's second run at an at-large Council seat finds him at the intersection of the old guard and progressive upstarts.

Similar to political activists and organizations in general, some local LGBTQ activists are supporting D.C.’s ballot Initiative 81, which calls for the partial decriminalization of psychedelic plants used as medicines, with almost no one…

Unlike two universities in the District, Howard University will not cancel classes on Election Day. A student-led petition had sought the day off to stress the importance of voting.

With six days left to go until Election Day, officials are encouraging voters who still want to cast a ballot from home to avoid using the U.S. Postal Service to return their ballot.

He claims to be a fiscally conservative "Independent Progressive Democrat."

While many people in the region have already voted early by mail, others are still heading to the polls in person.

It’s been 17 years since Antonio Lancaster was sent hundreds of miles from his District of Columbia home to federal prison for armed robbery. Locked away at 19, Lancaster lost his right to vote before he had ever used it. But this year,…

For Sakeenah Shabazz, 27, voting this year couldn’t have been easier. The Ward 7 resident received her ballot in the mail, made her selections, dropped the ballot back in the mail, and later checked online to see that it and been received…