While most every incumbent for the D.C. Council handily won their primary contests yesterday, the At-Large contest between Councilmember Vincent Orange (D-At Large) and Sekou Biddle remained too close to call. more ›

Polls are closed for the D.C. primary, so keep it here for our live-blogging of the results as they roll in. more ›

There's four more hours of voting to go in the D.C. primary, and turnout has been low so far. You've still got time to make your voice heard! more ›

On NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt this morning Mayor Vince Gray gave a blanket endorsement to all the incumbents running for re-election to the D.C. Council today, though he did so with little apparent energy or enthusiasm. more ›

Today is the long-awaited D.C. primary, and polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. If you have any stories to share from your voting experience—good or bad—we'd love to hear them! more ›

There's a good chance you had no idea that there was a primary in D.C. tomorrow. Well, there is. Here's some of the information you need to successfully cast a ballot. more ›

Roseanne Barr, who is waging a write-in campaign for the Green Party's nomination for president, is placing robocalls to D.C. voters ahead of tomorrow's primary election. more ›

The District may only have 16 delegates to give to a Republican contender, but for Mitt Romney's slow march towards the 1,144 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination, no delegate is being left behind. more ›

Former councilmember Sekou Biddle has now made official what was long rumored: he's running for a seat on the D.C. Council. But not just any seat. more ›

After it was determined that he won the Republican nomination for mayor early this morning, everyone was wondering about Mayor Adrian Fenty's chances of running on the GOP ticket, whether he'd fare any better a second time around and what it might say about our city. Well, so much for that speculation: the Board of Elections and Ethics now says that Fenty couldn't accept the Republican nomination even if he wanted to, since he was not registered with the party on Primary Day. Originally, it was believed that Fenty would have until 4:45 p.m. today to decide whether or not to run. more ›

In a series of blunt tweets this morning, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics has apologized for the issues with Tuesday's voting, including massively long waits for results to roll in Tuesday night and problems with touch-screen voting machines which delayed voters at several polling places around the city. "We were too slow in reporting the election results on Tuesday. We will improve our process for November," said one BOEE tweet, which even included the hashtag #statingtheobvious. (We appreciate the self-depreciation.) BOEE also thanked its more than 1,800 poll workers and asked residents to report any and all problems that they experienced on Tuesday to director@dcboee.org. "We can only fix what we know about," they added. more ›

Good evening, readers. We'll be updating with results and news regarding the Democratic primaries, polling places for which -- as of 6 p.m. -- are still scheduled to close at 8 tonight. Martin Austermuhle is currently on the streets, and he'll be filling us in with information from the headquarters of the Board of Elections and Ethics and elsewhere throughout the evening. Grab some popcorn, and join us in the comments with your thoughts. more ›

As far as drama goes, things appear to be pretty calm at most polling places so far today. But Nikki Peele, who pens the Congress Heights on the Rise blog under the pseudonym The Advoc8te, went to the polls this morning to cast her vote and found one of the District's local leaders making a scene. Peele writes that when she arrived at Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School at 3200 6th Street SE to vote, she noticed ANC 8C03 Commissioner Mary Cuthbert supporting Vince Gray, in total defiance of the "no electioneering" zone. Peele also reports that Cuthbert -- who, if you remember, called one of the challengers running for her ANC position the n-word last month -- was adamant that she was in compliance with the law because she was still 50 feet away from the door of the polling place, regardless of where the sign was placed. Police eventually got involved and it looks like cooler heads prevailed. I guess it's your move, Kathy Henderson. more ›

Good morning, Washington. It's Primary Day, and so your Morning Roundup has gone all politics, all the time! (Don't worry, we'll get back to the few other non-Primary news stories soon enough.) It wouldn't be Primary Day without voting issues, would it? The District's Board of Elections and Ethics reports that a handful of the city's polling places had issues with opening their new touch-screen voting machines, leading to delays and a reliance on paper ballots. The issues are apparently due to "training issues." Twitter user antheawatson told us that at Dunbar High School, poll workers "had the manual out" and that it didn't "seem like the poll workers are adequately trained on the electronic poll books." At this editor's precinct (Ward 1, Precinct 22), the new machines worked, but the polling place was short-staffed, and waiting on backups, leading to long lines -- paper balloting was being pushed hard, too. more ›

Are you one of the 22,048 people who had voted in the Democratic primaries through Saturday night? Perhaps you're one of the nearly 2,300 people who registered to vote at one of those said early voting locations? Well, then, this post is not for you. (Though we are very proud of you -- you have certainly earned your "I Voted" sticker.) No, this is for those of us who either haven't made up our minds or just never got around to taking advantage of the early voting. Here's what you need to know, fellow procrastinators! more ›

Be sure to bring a book. Based on the Board of Elections and Ethics' website, the wait to vote as of 12:35 p.m. this afternoon was 90 to 100 minutes. BOEE has accommodated well over 500 voters so far, but things are slow going. At this point, you'd probably be better served by just waiting for the next couple of days -- BOEE is recommending that voters come back during midweek, off-peak hours. If you're dead set on going today, polls are open until 7 p.m. at 441 4th Street NW. Four additional early voting locations open on September 4. According to TBD's Kevin Robillard, the Board expects a quarter of D.C. voters to use the early voting option for this year's primary. more ›

Vincent Gray has opened a commanding lead over incumbent Adrian Fenty in the race for mayor, according to a Washington Post poll released this morning. The Post's poll shows Gray with a 17-point advantage among likely voters. Among all Democrats, Gray leads 49-36, a 13-point advantage. Voters are supporting Gray, though at the same time they indicate they generally approve of the job Fenty has done, and feel the city is on the right track. more ›

Is the Fenty campaign getting desperate? Last week the Mayor attempted to open primary voting to tens of thousands of voters with no declared party affiliation. The Board of Elections and Ethics denied the request, resulting an a flurry of negative press for the incumbent. In a surprising move, at the end of last week Fenty participated in two unlikely interviews, one with the Washington City Paper and one with Greater Greater Washington's David Alpert. more ›

This afternoon, the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C. released the results of an evaluation of the "gay-supportiveness" of the politicians running for Mayor and the D.C. Council in this year's Democratic primary. The scores are based on candidates' answers on a questionnaire developed by GLAA and their records -- the final number is expressed on a scale between positive and negative 10. The results aren't really that surprising: incumbents won the day -- Jim Graham (Ward 1) and Phil Mendelson (At-Large) both received perfect +10 scores, mostly for their work in pushing forward the marriage equality bill, while Tommy Wells (Ward 6) and Mary Cheh (Ward 3) also got high marks. Leo Alexander (running for Mayor), Delano Hunter (Ward 5) and Kelvin Robinson (Ward 6) finished with the only negative scores. (Makes sense: all three have been endorsed by the National Organization for Marriage). The lone exception to the incumbent parade? The race for Mayor, where Vince Gray's +8.5 rating was much higher than Mayor Adrian Fenty's +4. Most of the candidates fall firmly into the +4 to +7 range, though there were several candidates who didn't bother to return the organization's survey. Mostly, though, we really just like that the ratings resemble some kind of fabulous turn-based strategy game where a Graham or Mendelson card is simply unbeatable. A full breakdown of the scores can be found here. more ›

Some interesting -- yet disturbing -- news this afternoon: Errol R. Arthur, the chair of the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, has resigned in order to take another job, according to the Washington Post. more ›

Experiencing an uptick in clipboard holders asking you for your John Hancock? It's no surprise. According to the District's Board of Elections and Ethics, the petition circulation period for Democratic, Republican and Statehood Green candidates planning on running for office in this September's primaries is tomorrow, July 7. Most offices require 2,000 (or 1% of the population, whichever is less) signatures of registered voters for candidates to get on the ballot. One can probably expect a full court press from fringe candidates who are short of signatures in certain areas of the city today and tomorrow. The circulation period for independent and all other party candidates entering the general election ends August 25. Reminder: you need to be a registered voter in the District at the time you sign the petition -- otherwise, your signature won't count. more ›

Amid continuing concerns about the validity of the results, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics still hasn't certified the results of the Sept. 9 primary election. New pre-certified results were released on Sept. 20, and today, the board released its final post election audit report. You can download the nine-page PDF for yourself. According to the report, the audit consisted of four three-member teams, each reviewing the ballots of randomly selected precincts, which were precincts 13, 21, 22 and 44. None of the audited precincts showed differences between manual recounts and voting machine results of more than one or two votes in any given race, though there were small inconsistencies between hand counts in two of the precincts. more ›

This year's At-large D.C. Council race just won't go quietly into this goodnight, and neither, she announced today, will longtime Republican Council member Carol Schwartz. Even though she initially said last week that she would not launch a write-in campaign after losing the GOP primary to upstart challenger Patrick Mara, Schwartz today announced that she will now do just that. more ›

Shortly after releasing its statement to the media, the DCBOEE has issued a new set of unofficial primary election results, this time with all 143 precincts included. None of the outcomes of any of the races have changed: Patrick Mara is still well ahead of long-time At-large Council member Carol Schwartz, Jack Evans has still held on to his Ward 2 seat, and all the other incumbents in the major races have still won their primary races. The total voter turn-out for this primary is now looking to be 42,421, although that still doesn't include absentee or provisional ballots. The total turnout for the Feb. 12 presidential primary was 131,103. more ›

After huddling behind closed doors and ignoring media inquiries for most of the day, the DCBOEE has issued a statement on last night's voting irregularities. more ›

UPDATE 10:49 p.m. With all of the races now decided, we're calling it a night. You can continue to follow the minutiae of the last few precinct results as they come in at the DCBOEE's snazzy new election results web site. more ›

Come on, Commonwealth. The Post is reporting that just about nobody is showing up to vote in today's congressional primaries in the 11th District. It's a pretty big race, with Rep. Tom Davis leaving his long-held office and four Democrats vying for the nomination. But people seem to be suffering from election-lag after the months-long primary season. Don't be discouraged; poling places are open until 7 p.m. more ›

Now that the 2008 presidential primary season has officially begun, it's time to make sure you're registered to vote. The District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia will all hold their presidential primaries on Feb. 12, which means voter registration deadlines are looming. more ›