Elections

With so much happening in D.C. over the last few months, you could be forgiven for forgetting that we have an election coming up (in fact, we have two).

D.C.’s primary is on June 2, and it’ll work a little differently this year thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.

D.C. COUNCIL members in recent years haven’t had to worry about finances. A booming local economy brought in lots of tax dollars. Indeed, it seemed that council members were competing to expand services and add programs — with little…

LL awoke this morning to a subtweet from Ward 2 candidate Brooke Pinto criticizing a fellow candidate who has a "Super PAC funding large efforts for their campaigns." She took the opportunity to vow not to accept money from political…

Here are a few of the Ward 4 councilmember’s strategies.

The Ward 4 councilmember said he had a scheduling conflict with last night's event. But he won't say what it was.

Can Ward 8 Councilmember Trayon White live stream his way to a second term?

evans2020.com was already taken.

A District government agency last week removed hundreds of campaign signs showing support for an upstart political candidate who’s challenging a well-funded D.C. councilmember in the June Democratic primary. The agency now says the mass…

A Department of Public Works employee was spotted taking down campaign signs for Ward 4 candidate Janeese Lewis George, apparently under a supervisor's direction.

From thousands of phone calls to Zoombombed virtual happy hours, they're figuring it out.

THE D.C. Board of Elections was the butt of national jokes in 2014 when it printed the District flag upside down on its voter guide for the general election. This year, it was embarrassed when it sent mailers to thousands of voters that…

D.C. officials say they plan on encouraging more residents to use absentee ballots to vote by mail and will limit the number of physical voting sites for the June 2 primary. The changes are part of a plan to let the primary proceed as…

As the United States grapples with the novel coronavirus pandemic, the nation’s capital plans to pare down in-person voting and encourage mail-in voting for the District of Columbia’s June 2 primary elections.

The D.C. Board of Elections is encouraging residents to request mail ballots for the June 2 primary and the June 16 special election in Ward 2, calling it the safest choice in light of the social distancing measures provoked by the…

The pandemic has changed how D.C. political candidates campaign for office, as would-be lawmakers forgo door knocking, meet-and-greets, and other events that bring them into contact with the voters they’re otherwise desperate to reach. But…

Former D.C. Councilman Jack Evans, having resigned from the District’s legislative body earlier this year under the threat of expulsion, has made it clear that he wants to continue to represent Ward 2 residents, but opinions are split on…

Former Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans has withdrawn from the special election necessitated by his resignation earlier this year, Evans confirmed to DCist on Wednesday.

D.C.’s new public campaign-financing program is currently in its first election year, and it has already seen about a dozen candidates qualify for more than $1 million in city funding. And on Wednesday, the campaign of one of those…

Former D.C. Council member Jack Evans said he will not run in the special election to fill the vacancy he created by resigning before he could be expelled for ethics violations.