Good morning, Washington. It’s Car Free DC day, and we’re sure many of you participated this morning by choosing to ride a bike or take public transportation to work — hopefully, that includes a lot of people who normally drive into the city. Let us know if you actually ditched your personal motor vehicle this morning and took an alternate method to the office.

BOEE Mishandling Primary Vote Investigation: The Post paints a picture this morning of the job that’s being done by the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics since the questionable primary election results that doesn’t look at all good. The four-member team investigating what went wrong on Sept. 9 is made up of three people who work for the board itself and one outsider who told the newspaper he has very little idea what’s going on in terms of the investigation. It’s an embarrassing story for the city, and we’re guessing some members of the D.C. Council will be forced to make a big ruckus about it over the next couple of days to make sure residents feel like someone responsible is monitoring the situation.

Three Dead in Four Separate Car Crashes: Speaking of going car free… If helping the environment isn’t a good enough reason to ditch your internal combustion engine, perhaps this story will give you one. A series of four scary car accidents around the city left three people dead and many others severly injured in the early morning hours of Saturday. Cars: not just hazardous to the planet, but also hazardous to your health and safety.

Briefly Noted: DC man dies in PG County shooting … Book thief makes off with 150 titles from Fairfax library … Tracking bracelet leads to NW shooting suspect … Arrest made in teen’s shooting death … Catoe to outline billions in infrastructure improvements needed for Metro.

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