Elections

Well before the polls opened at 8:30 a.m., Delores McMillian was standing outside Nationals Park, a facility known best for baseball and beer lines. But on Tuesday, the wait for was ballots, and McMillian arrived at 6 a.m. — the very first…

D.C. residents made their way voting centers throughout the District on Tuesday to cast their ballots on the first day of early voting.

Despite a pandemic that presents increased risk for older adults, Viola Hubbard took her place as a poll worker in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning, just as she has for every election since Barack Obama was elected president in 2008.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said she plans to cast a ballot in person at an early-voting center later this week, and will vote against a ballot question asking whether the city should decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms and other…

Unanimously passed Council legislation lets Washingtonians in federal prisons vote in local and federal elections. But the Federal Bureau of Prisons is making it difficult for advocates to reach all eligible voters.

WITH VOTING by mail well underway in D.C. and early voting set to start Tuesday, the race drawing the most attention is for two at-large seats on the D.C. Council. The attention is well-placed: The choices voters make will shape the…

It would be totally understandable for D.C. voters to take one look at this November’s election ballot for D.C. Council and have unwelcome flashbacks to the overcrowded Democratic presidential primary field.

Three openly gay candidates are running for seats on the D.C. Council and another three are running for seats on the city’s nine-member State Board of Education in an election on Nov. 3 with a record number of candidates competing for…

The Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance announced on Sunday, Oct. 18, that it has revised its rating on LGBTQ issues for Statehood Green Party candidate Peter Bolton, who is one of four candidates running for the Ward 2 D.C. Council seat,…

Some D.C. ballots aren’t being counted because they’re not filled out right. How should voters be filling out their ballot to make sure it’s counted?

Jacque Patterson listed his "principal residence" in Maryland in tax documents. He says it was a mistake that will be corrected.

Ward 2 Councilmember Brooke Pinto – who surprised D.C. with her narrow victory in June’s packed primary — is looking to secure a four-year term on the D.C. Council this fall.

When it comes to voting, much of the discussion of late has been about where and how people will make their picks. But there’s another crucial aspect: what the ballot looks like.

Orange delivered a speech to a 50-person crowd at the Mansion on O Street in Dupont Sunday evening.

If elected, the longtime policy wonk would add to the Council's growing progressive bloc.

After a crowded primary, D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto (D-Ward 2) should be facing only token opposition in the general election, given that Democrats outnumber other voters in her part of the city by a margin of 2-to-1.

The leftward march of local politics in the nation’s capital is on the ballot this fall as voters weigh their choices for an open at-large seat on the D.C. Council.

One of the items being voted on right now is a measure that would make so-called “magic mushrooms” and other psychedelic plants among the lowest law enforcement priorities in the District.

While the independent at-large D.C. Council and D.C. State Board of Education races receive a lot of attention from the District’s electorate for the Nov. 3 general election, there are also about 300 individual advisory neighborhood…

The election campaign signs for two lesbians running for Advisory Neighborhood Commission seats in the Logan Circle area and a gay man running for a Dupont Circle area ANC seat have been repeatedly pulled down or damaged while signs for…