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jonetta rose barras: The dangerous road ahead for the DC Council

jonetta rose barras Jul 28, 2023

The DC Board of Elections released its formal ruling earlier this week, making official its declaration that the Make All Votes Count Act of 2024 is a proper subject for a ballot initiative. That decision is reckless and without…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Is the gentrification of DC elections underway?

jonetta rose barras Jul 21, 2023

On the surface, ranked choice voting (RCV) may seem like an egalitarian policy. According to advocates, it would ensure that political candidates would be more accountable to voters and more women and people of color would get elected. …

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Mail-in voting and the breach in civic culture

jonetta rose barras Jul 1, 2022

“It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends,” Joan Didion wrote in her 1967 essay, “Goodbye to All That.” She’s right, of course. It may be harder still, however, to see the beginning of the end, which…

Elections

jonetta rose barras: DC elections officials subjectively disenfranchise thousands of voters

jonetta rose barras Apr 21, 2022

The DC Board of Elections collaborated in the disenfranchisement of thousands of District voters when it upheld a complaint filed by Bruce Spiva that asserted DC Council member Kenyan McDuffie did not meet the statutory qualifications to…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: An election note to DC officials

jonetta rose barras Nov 12, 2020

There were protests and counterprotests. One candidate was accused of being bought by out-of-town super-rich people. Another was labeled a pawn of big developers. There also were accusations of campaign finance violations. At one point,…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Will the general election be better than the primary?

jonetta rose barras Oct 23, 2020

That is the question political operatives and election watchers are asking as DC begins in-person voting next Tuesday. Many of them seem to be waiting for the other shoe to drop. There remains little confidence in the DC Board of Elections…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Paging Emmett Fremaux

jonetta rose barras Jun 25, 2020

After listening last week to DC Board of Elections (BOE) chair Michael Bennett and executive director Alice Miller trying to explain the chaotic mess they made of the June 2 primary, I wondered, Where is Emmett H. Fremaux Jr.? The…

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: DC’s primary election mess

jonetta rose barras Jun 4, 2020

Officials at the DC Board of Elections have managed to publish preliminary voting results from the primary election held earlier this week. That achievement may not be worth celebrating, however. The primary election was an absolute mess. …

Opinion

jonetta rose barras: Is voter depression/suppression coming to DC for the June 2 election? Maybe.

jonetta rose barras Apr 16, 2020

The DC Council mandated last week in its COVID-19 Response Supplemental Emergency Act of 2020 that the DC Board of Elections mail a ballot request form to every eligible voter for the June 2 primary and the June 16 Ward 2 special election.…

WAMU: Washingtonians Won’t Get To Vote On Term Limits, Rules Elections Board

Editor Apr 4, 2019

Should elected officials in D.C. only be allowed to serve two terms in office? Maybe, maybe not.

WAMU: Effort To Recall Embattled D.C. Council Member Jack Evans Delayed Over Missing Paperwork

Editor Apr 4, 2019

The push to recall D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) from office has hit a roadblock, likely delaying the start of the signature-gathering campaign needed to put the measure on the ballot by a month — if not longer.

WTOP: DC board quashes recall drive against council’s Evans

Editor Apr 4, 2019

The D.C. Board of Elections has rejected an attempt to begin a voter recall drive against embattled D.C. Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans.

Washington Post: Election officials halt recall effort against D.C. Council member Jack Evans

Editor Apr 4, 2019

Election officials halted a recall effort against D.C. Council member Jack Evans on Wednesday because of technical mistakes made by recall supporters.

Washington Post: Battle over reviving Initiative 77 tipping measure in D.C. heads to appeals court

Editor Dec 13, 2018

An advocacy group plans to appeal a court order that foiled its effort to hold a new election on a wages for tipped workers that had been approved by D.C. voters but overturned by the D.C. Council.

Washington Post: Initiative 77 backers scramble to collect signatures to put tipped wage hike back…

Editor Dec 9, 2018

Activists are scrambling to collect thousands of signatures needed to revive a law approved by voters but overturned by the D.C. Council that would change how the District’s servers, bartenders and other tipped employees are paid.

WAMU: Lawsuit Could Derail Proposed Referendum To Overturn D.C. Council’s Repeal Of Initiative 77

Editor Nov 27, 2018

A push for a public vote to overturn the D.C. Council’s repeal of Initiative 77 hit a significant roadblock on Tuesday, as a D.C. bartender filed a lawsuit looking to delay, if not outright derail the proposed referendum.

DCist: What Happened To Precinct 110’s Votes On Election Night?

Editor Nov 7, 2018

Past 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday night, a strange moment arrived for obsessive D.C. election-watchers: The D.C. Board of Elections results page suddenly stopped its live results tally, with only 142 of 143 precincts reporting. One…

WTOP: Poll workers save DC man’s life after collapse at voting site

Editor Nov 6, 2018

WASHINGTON — For Allie Bobak, her job Tuesday at a polling site at Barnard Elementary School in Northwest was to only serve as a nonpartisan observer with the organization Observe DC. But that job quickly took on the added role of saving a…

DCist: Long Lines At Eastern Market Frustrate Voters In The 88th And 89th Precincts

Editor Nov 6, 2018

Voters in two D.C. precincts Tuesday morning had more than rainy weather to contend with as they tried to cast their ballots. At the polling place in Eastern Market, where people in both precinct 88 and 89 are assigned to vote, lines…

jonetta rose barras: Undemocratic campaign finance reform in DC, Part 2

jonetta rose barras Oct 26, 2018

How bad is Ward 6 D.C. Council member Charles Allen’s omnibus campaign finance bill now making its way through the council? Let me count the ways. There’s the previously discussed discriminatory prohibition on contributions to political…

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