Elections

CALLS TO DEFUND the police have become a focal point of nationwide protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, with local politicians from New York City to Los Angeles weighing new budget cuts to their police…

The bevy of problems around Tuesday’s D.C. primary—including hours-long lines at the polls and absentee ballots that were never delivered—have prompted calls for accountability, with Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Council asking the…

Leaders in the District and Maryland are calling for top elections officials to resign after botched delivery of absentee ballots, and polling places shuttered because of the coronavirus, led to hours-long waits to vote in Tuesday’s…

It was an inauspicious start to an election season: Only days after the D.C. Board of Elections announced in late March that it would try and conduct a majority of the June 2 primary by mail, a number of staff members developed COVID-19…

Voters encountered long lines and the National Guard while they waited to vote on an abnormal Election Day.

Incumbent Brandon Todd appears to have lost the Democratic primary for the Ward 4 seat on D.C. Council, with Janeese Lewis George holding more than 54% of the vote, according to the unofficial results of Tuesday's elections. Jack Evans…

Janeese Lewis George, a left-leaning lawyer who used to work for D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D), has defeated incumbent Ward 4 Council member Brandon T. Todd in the Democratic primary, while attorney Brooke Pinto leads a close…

After an election night marked by wait times stretching past four or five hours at polling sites, Janeese Lewis George appears to have bested incumbent Brandon Todd in Ward 4 in the Democratic primary, while Brooke Pinto holds an extremely…

It’s primary day in D.C., and it’s no exaggeration to say this primary is unlike any before.

The District of Columbia encouraged all residents to vote by mail in Tuesday’s primary as the pandemic continued — but on Election Day, hundreds voted in person, some waiting for more than an hour in lines that stretched for blocks.

"I think our power is a little more evident in these local elections," said one young voter.

Tuesday’s primary election in the District won’t be a usual one because of the coronavirus: The majority of voters have likely voted early or by mail to help prevent the spread of the pandemic.

THE DISTRICT, as in other places across the country, has been the scene of people protesting the killing of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. There is added attention when such scenes play out in the nation’s capital — both…

No one charts their own way in District politics quite like D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8).

In the early days of Brandon Todd’s first D.C. Council campaign, James Salt was among the volunteers dispatched to knock on doors and introduce the first-time candidate to Ward 4 residents.

The Washington Post isn’t openly endorsing Evans this time around, as it has for almost three decades. But the influential paper is helping Evans’s candidacy in less obvious ways.

D.C. legislators are duking it out over the direction of the D.C. Council this primary season.

Featuring cameos by Tony Dungy, JFK, Democrats in Colorado, and a Clydesdale

D.C.’s primary election day looks very different in 2020.

Ward 7 has always been Vincent C. Gray’s home turf.