Elections

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…

D.C. voters heading into the polling place on Tuesday will be asked to vote for two candidates for the D.C. Council’s At-Large seats. There are six candidates running: a Democrat, a Republican, a member of the Statehood Green Party and…

On Friday evening, the Washington Post editorial board published its local endorsements for the 2018 general election. Per usual, local politicos either cheered the newspaper's picks or expressed utter disgust with them—including some…

Just four months after District voters approved an initiative to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers, the D.C. Council voted to overturn it. It might seem like an odd fate for Initiative 77, which got 55 percent of the popular vote in…

Ward 4 voters will head to the polls in 2018 not once, not twice, but three times. Or, at least that’s what we hope happens. In addition to the now-passed June 19th primary and the upcoming general election on November 6th, Ward 4 has a…

Much has been written and posted on social media about low voter turnout in June’s Democratic primary election, with pundits speculating about the causes. One popular narrative was that, counter to their well-to-do neighbors, residents of…