President Obama's newfound support for same-sex marriage has the potential to make significant impacts in elections this year in Maryland and Virginia. more ›

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will win the Republican presidential primaries in the District and Maryland, all major news organizations project. Though neither race was close, both will help Romney pad his delegate lead. more ›

Would you be more likely to vote on a Saturday than on a Tuesday? A pair of congressional Democrats bet that you would, and they'd like to change federal law to allow weekend voting for congressional and presidential contests. more ›

As part of a larger bill to reform the federal Hatch Act, today D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced language that would allow the District to operate by its own local version of the law like many other states do. more ›

Monday, March 5 is the last day to join a political party or hop from one to the other in D.C. Why does that matter? Because unless you're a member of one of the three political parties in the city, you can't vote in the April 3 primary. Get to it! more ›

The District needs ethics reform, but it also has an election coming up. It was only a matter of time before the two started to mix. more ›

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton ceremonially kicked off her re-election campaign during a speech on Saturday, reports The Hoya. more ›

While the D.C. GOP has fielded candidates for a number of local 2012 races, the Statehood Green Party has remained quiet so far. more ›

The D.C. GOP may be small, with under 30,000 registered members citywide, but its size hasn't stopped it from trying to get local Republicans elected to office. Looking to 2012, the party is fielding a number of contenders in some big ticket local races. 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 ›

You may feel the need to shower after seeing The Ides of March. The film's marketers could have repurposed No Country for Old Men's tagline, "There are no clean getaways," because in the cutthroat political stage on display here, nobody gets out without slinging not just mud, but probably some raw sewage as well. 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 ›

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 ›

...Councilmember Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) was out there winning his bid for re-election. 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 ›

"Guess Who's Back" in the news? Adrian Fenty, who earned himself a shoutout from rapper/mogul/entrepreneur/NBA owner Jay-Z in a recent interview. more ›

It's August in an odd-numbered year in the District -- quite the dry time, politically speaking. Council is on recess, the Mayor is taking trips and hitting the ribbon cutting circuit, and there's generally a political malaise hanging in the haze. But this summer is different -- with next year's Democratic primaries now being held in April instead of the traditional September, races for seats are already starting to heat up. more ›

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

Yup, Stephen Colbert is allowed to form his political action committee. more ›

The last time he was in town, an impromptu crowd chanted his name and delivered a stirring rendition of "Happy Birthday" -- but this time around, Stephen Colbert's trip to the Federal Election Commission is all business. (Okay, maybe not all business.) more ›

Last Friday, the District's Office of Campaign Finance filed a complaint against D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown, finding that Brown's 2008 campaign failed to report hundreds of contributions totaling in the six figures. But could Brown also be facing criminal charges as a result? more ›

Over the last couple of months, Kwame Brown's been laying relatively low, working on the city's budget as his contemporaries battle allegations they paid rival candidates and get sued by the city for improperly spending its money. But it appears as if Brown's name might once again be due up in the scandal lineup. more ›

The victory dance Vincent Orange has likely been waiting so many years to perform? Somewhat underwhelming, to be honest. I mean, Kwame Brown at least gave us a little bit of The Lawnmower -- Orange flails his arms around and kind of does a spin, but that's about it. (Orange starts talking around the 55 second mark of the video, but you don't really need to watch that.) 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 ›

The race for Senate in Virginia got much more interesting today, as Democratic National Committee chair and former governor Tim Kaine announced that he would pursue the seat being vacated by current Sen. Jim Webb. Kaine, who has chaired the DNC since January 2009, will likely face former Sen. George Allen in what is already being touted as a key bellwether race during the national 2012 election cycle. more ›

On this day in 1961, residents of the District finally gained the right to vote in presidential elections when Ohio became the 38th state to ratify the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution. Yes, that's right -- prior to the amendment's ratification, residents of the District weren't only denied any semblance of local governance, but were also completely shut out of national politics too. more ›

Did you know that Patrick Mara, current Ward 1 Member of the D.C. State Board of Education and a candidate running in the race to fill an at-large D.C. Council seat, is a Republican? Did you also know that former President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain are also Republicans? If you did not realize these facts, then boy, do we have the site for you. more ›

Last night, interim At-Large Councilmember and special election candidate Sekou Biddle won the endorsement of D.C. for Democracy, a progressive activism group. That's the short version of the story: the long version involves a complex system of instant runoff voting, which some think is a better method of determining an election winner. more ›