For anyone just waiting to sign those petitions to get a recall of Mayor Vince Gray and D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown on the ballot, you'll have to wait two more weeks to do so. more ›

Today the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics declares the Ward 5 seat once held by Harry Thomas, Jr. vacant, clearing the way for a special election expected to happen on May 15. more ›

As we reported earlier today, the paperwork seeking a recall of Mayor Vince Gray and D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown was filed this morning. Below you can see the paperwork for yourself, including the reasons for the recall, located on the last page of each filing. more ›

It's the ultimate irony -- even if he resigns, Councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. (D-Ward 5) will keep denying his constituents effective representation and keep costing the District taxpayers money. more ›

During the District's September 2010 primary, one in five voters cast ballots at one of the four early voting sites set up across the city. For the April 3, 2012 primary, the number of early voting sites will double. more ›

During a lengthy hearing yesterday, members of a D.C. Council committee discussed how best to address the ethical scandals which have plagued the District's elected leaders this year. Still, little consensus emerged on the next steps to take. more ›

Mayor Vince Gray is reportedly considering Deborah Nichols, the former D.C. Auditor, as his choice to head up the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics. more ›

Paul Stenbjorn, the executive director of the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, is resigning from the position, DCist has learned. more ›

High school student elections are often improvised affairs, and voting doesn't often get more complicated than dropping a piece of paper into a shoe box. But what if students at a local high school could cast their ballots much the same way that adults do, using state-of-the-art tamper-resistant electronic voting machines? Would they take the whole process a little more seriously? more ›

I was off by an hour, but my Friday News Dump radar was close enough -- the Post Mike DeBonis reports that Mayor Vince Gray won't be sending Robert Mallett's nomination to chair the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics on to the D.C. Council for consideration. more ›

In the two days since Mayor Vince Gray's nominee to head the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics was all but sunk over questions relating to his residency, city officials have announced that they will start reviewing the "legal sufficiency" of all nominees before making them public. more ›

After news emerged yesterday that its nominee to lead the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics may not meet residency requirements for the position, Mayor Vince Gray's administration has said that it's exploring seeking a waiver to the law. more ›

It didn't take long for government watchdog Dorothy Brizill to strike. Only minutes after Mayor Vincent Gray announced three new nominees to serve on the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics this morning, Brizill threw one of the nominees' qualifications into question by noting that he had not lived in the District for the amount of time required by law. more ›

In this morning's roundup, we told you how the tenure of Andrea Pringle, Vince Gray's new Deputy Chief of Staff, was already off to a rocky start -- local government watchdog Dorothy Brizill filed a formal complaint with the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, accusing Pringle of voting in the District's 2010 mayoral primary while living in Montgomery County. more ›

There's suddenly another high-profile vacancy at the District's Board of Elections and Ethics -- the Washington Post reports this afternoon that the board's chairman, Togo West, is resigning. more ›

Rokey Suleman, who had served as the executive director of the District's Board of Elections and Ethics since 2009, resigned today. more ›

After some initial confusion about precisely how many Washingtonians casted a ballot yesterday, the District's Board of Elections and Ethics has revised its numbers downward, knocking turnout back into the single digits. more ›

Earlier today, we noted that a federal shutdown could affect the District in a number of ways, from which agencies operate to how the 2012 budget deliberations play out. Thankfully, there's one thing that won't change whether or not the feds close up shop: the April 26 Special Election will still go on, as planned. more ›

If you're registered to vote in the District, but you've moved or changed political affiliations since the last time you went to the polls and are planning on voting in the April 26 special election, you'll want to check out the Board of Election and Ethics website today -- it's the last day for D.C. voters to update their records via mail before the citywide election. more ›

The District's Board of Elections and Ethics conducted its lottery for the District's citywide special election on April 26 this afternoon. Will being listed last on the ballot hurt Vincent Orange? more ›

News this morning from the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics is that while Republican Patrick Mara and Bryan Weaver will likely stay on the ballot for the April 26 At-Large Special Election, Jacque Patterson will most likely be knocked off due to challenges filed by Interim Councilmember Sekou Biddle and Alonzo Edmondson, a supporter of fellow candidate Vincent Orange. more ›

David Schwartzman. Dorothy Douglas. Natale Stracuzzi. Nelson Rimensnyder. Eugene Kinlow. These names are amongst the 1,417 that Interim D.C. Councilmember Sekou Biddle says fellow candidate Bryan Weaver improperly collected in his attempt to get on the ballot for the April 26 At-Large special election. Weaver not only disagrees, but contends that Biddle's challenges of his nominating petitions ensnared hundreds of legitimate D.C. voters and were filed as part of an attempt to bury his small campaign staff in the painstaking work of verifying the names, addresses and signatures of the 3,478 people that signed his nominating petitions. more ›

In February, Ward 1 resident Maria Cardona signed a nominating petition to get Bryan Weaver on the ballot for the April 26 At-Large Special Election. According to Interim Councilmember Sekou Biddle's campaign, however, Cardona is one of 1,417 questionable signatures on Weaver's petitions.

But she's also Weaver's wife. more ›

Interim D.C. Councilmember Sekou Biddle (D-At Large) filed a series of challenges to nominating petitions submitted by Bryan Weaver, Patrick Mara and Jacque Patterson late yesterday afternoon, setting in motion a process that may well find some or all of the trio kicked off the April 26 Special Election ballot. more ›

First, there were 21. Then 11. Now, only 10 candidates remain in the race for the April 26 At-Large Special Election -- and in the coming week, there's a slight chance that the field may be narrowed down further. more ›

Yesterday, we wrote a post about the deadline for candidates in the upcoming special election to turn in their nominating petitions, and why the number of signatures said candidates were able to get mattered or not. After all was said and done, the process didn't do very much to thin the herd: of the 21 candidates who picked up petitions from the Board of Elections and Ethics, more than half remain in the running. more ›

Just as you're leaving the office to head home, candidates for the April 26 Special Election to fill the At-Large seat once occupied by D.C. Council Chair Kwame Brown will be handing in their nominating petitions to the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics. To actually get on the ballot, candidates had to gather 3,000 signatures by 5 p.m. today, which meant long hours of standing outside of Metro stations and supermarkets in less-than-ideal weather. Being the creatures of curiosity that we are, we informally reached out to a number of the candidates to see how many signatures they were planning on turning in today. more ›

Of course, if you read DCist on a daily basis, this isn't news to you. But you might want to go ahead and mark it down on your calendar now, as it doesn't sound like the District's Board of Elections and Ethics will be reminding you about it. As the city looks to keep election costs to a minimum, the BOEE will likely save $80,000 this spring by not sending out public notice of the April 26 special election to voters. more ›

New D.C. Councilmember Sekou Biddle's ascension to the at-large seat vacated by Council Chair Kwame Brown was sealed in a kitchenette. Biddle's attempt to hang on to the seat in April's special election might similarly be decided in a relatively small number of spaces -- that is, unless the District can come up with an extra $250,000. Freeman Klopott reports this afternoon that the city's Board of Elections and Ethics may only be able to open 16 voting centers, two in each ward, for the April special election, unless leaders can scrounge up some extra coin. In a typical election in the District, BOEE takes votes in 143 precincts across the city. more ›