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In just one week, we’ll have a new At-Large councilmember — and we’ll finally be done with elections in the District for at least a few months.

Four months of campaigning is coming to a close, as the nine candidates running to fill the seat once held by D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown scramble to attract enough voters in a race that we recently described as unsettled. While five frontrunners have emerged — Interim Councilmember Sekou Biddle, Bryan Weaver, Patrick Mara, Vincent Orange and Josh Lopez — none has gained a decisive upper-hand just yet.

Orange is somewhat the guy to beat, if only because he has enough money to bus us all to the polls — and serve everyone a bag lunch. According to his most recent campaign finance filing, the former Ward 5 councilmember and frequent citywide candidate has $134,000 to spend over the next week, significantly more than second-placed Weaver, who has $30,000 left in the bank. (Biddle has $24,000, Lopez $20,000 and Mara $15,000.) But money doesn’t win elections — just ask Adrian Fenty — and Orange’s practice of paying for lots of campaign workers has some wondering if his support is thinner than once believed.

If you’re still up in the air on the candidates, you’ve got a few more chances to hear them make their pitches — tonight at the Ward 6 forum and on WPFW 89.3FM this Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon.

If you’ve made up your mind and want to vote ahead of time, head on down to the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics at Judiciary Square to cast an in-person absentee ballot between 8 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. this week, or on Easter Sunday from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. (According to the board, 614 people have already gone this route.) Your chance to vote ahead of the crowd ends next Monday.