Elections

The good news, D.C., is that you have options when it comes to selecting the next two at-large councilmembers.

We sent the following questionnaire to candidates for the D.C. Council’s two At-large seats who included specific plans relating to housing and homelessness on their websites. Candidates were contacted using the information registered with…

Rapid rehousing is one of D.C.’s most controversial homeless services programs. This election season, as candidates battle for two at-large seats on the D.C. Council, some candidates have made changing the program part of their campaign. …

More than 60,000 ballots have already been mailed to the D.C. Board of Elections or left in a secure drop box. Before they can be counted, each must be inspected for a valid signature.

Three years ago, Isaac Smith was working to preserve a Confederate monument with an avowed white supremacist who would later go on to organize the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Twenty-three candidates are competing for two at-large D.C. Council seats. Voters can pick two candidates, and the top two finishers will win.

Members of the District’s sports teams turned out to greet residents as they became voters on Tuesday, the last day to register in advance for the election.

Columbia Heights residents use new mail-in drop box locations to submit their ballots for the upcoming presidential and local elections.

If you’ve been waiting to register to vote, wait no longer: the deadline to get yourself registered or to update your voter information in jurisdictions across the Washington region is Tuesday, Oct. 13.

On Tuesday, the final day for D.C. voters to register in advance for the election, the Mystics’ home court in Congress Heights will host a voter registration drive with the city’s major sports teams.

Members of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club, D.C.’s largest local LGBTQ political organization, voted by email last week to endorse Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden following a dispute over whether to endorse the Democratic…

The nine members of the D.C. State Board of Education are the city’s only elected representatives focused on education. The elected school board was stripped of most of its power in 2007 when Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) wrested control of…

For D.C. Board of Elections Chair D. Michael Bennett, the presidential voting underway in the nation’s capital is a chance at redemption.

The upcoming election counts among one of the most consequential in recent history for many reasons but perhaps none more important than it being the first time that District residents currently incarcerated in the Federal Bureau of…

Melissa Lavasani took “microdoses” of illegal psychedelic mushrooms to recover from postpartum depression in 2018. After her condition improved, she wanted others to have access to the treatment, working for months to get a ballot…

Like hundreds of thousands of D.C. residents, Sarah Mars Bowie got her general election ballot in the mail last week. But she was surprised to receive a ballot for someone else as well.

Imagine a vault for your vote. That’s what D.C.’s mail-in ballot drop boxes are.

American University will cancel classes and close university offices on Election Day to give students and employees time to vote, the school’s president announced Monday.

If you’re working your way through a ballot in D.C., don’t forget to turn it over: there’s a ballot initiative you get to vote for or against on the other side.

You know that feeling when you’re in the supermarket and end up in the cereal aisle, overwhelmed and unable to choose between 19 different varieties of Cheerios? Yeah, you may experience that when opening up the ballot and looking at this…