Elections

D.C. elections officials will send new voter registration cards to 25,000 households that received materials listing the wrong primary date, the board said Wednesday.

The D.C. Council on Tuesday pushed forward two bills that could make it easier for residents in the District of Columbia to vote. The bills passed through committee and will now be referred to a council wide vote.

Ask D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser if she encountered sexism in her rise to power, and her response is immediate: “Yes.”

D.C. officials have sent 5,000 voter registration cards listing the wrong date for the District’s primary election, the elections board acknowledged Friday.

Former D.C. Office of Human Rights Director Mónica Palacio announced her candidacy for the independent at-large council seat today.

Five of this year's candidates have ties to the attorney general.

Will Merrifield, most recently an attorney with the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, is running in the at-large race to fill incumbent David Grosso’s soon-to-be vacant seat.

Muriel Bowser may be D.C.’s mayor now, but some District residents say they received a phone poll testing the idea of having her join Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg as his vice presidential running mate. The calls come…

If you thought the Ward 2 D.C. Council race was contested enough, think again. Brooke Pinto, a 27-year-old Logan Circle resident who most recently worked as a lawyer for the District government, is running as a Democrat for the seat…

An eighth candidate has entered the Democratic primary for Ward 2 D.C. Council seat vacated by Jack Evans, who resigned from the council last month before he could be expelled for repeated ethics violations.

The D.C. Council on Wednesday questioned decisions by the city’s ethics and elections agencies following a year of scandals that resulted in an expensive special election and a disgraced former lawmaker using taxpayer dollars to fund his…

“I’m not afraid of making political enemies, because I think the system is so irrational. To fight back against it, you have to speak out against it.”

The best known Democrat seeking the D.C. Council seat representing Georgetown and downtown was missing when six candidates convened for a forum before a large gathering of voters and activists.

For the first time in the District’s political history, candidates for public office can receive public financing for their electoral bids, thanks to a newly implemented program called “Fair Elections.” And most of the declared candidates…

As all eyes were on Iowa last night — and while the complete results have been delayed due to “quality checks,” per the state’s Democratic Party — observers in D.C. saw a definitive showing for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren at their…

On Thursday, Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington, D.C., joined arms with Mike Bloomberg, her choice to win the primary for the Democratic Party. During a press conference to announce her endorsement, Bowser and Bloomberg pledged to fight for…

Former D.C. Council member Jack Evans, who resigned in January amid probable expulsion from office and an ongoing federal investigation on ethics violations, faced a new challenge to his bold bid to regain his Ward 2 seat.

In his political heyday, Jack Evans was a prodigious fundraiser, regularly raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars for his re-election campaigns for the Ward 2 D.C. Council seat he held for almost three decades. But as he seeks to…

All 12 members of the D.C. council have joined Mayor Muriel Bowser in vocally opposing a campaign bid from former Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans for his old seat.

"I understand the regret that he has expressed," Herroner declares.