For those of you who grew so weary of Michael A. Brown’s incessant robocalling and significant paper trail, well, you can’t say that the D.C. GOP isn’t on your side — even if its motives are slightly different.

But despite the combined objections of the Republican party and your voicemail inboxes, various sources are reporting that the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics is prepared to certify Michael A. Brown’s at-large Council victory as legitimate on Monday morning. District Republican leadership is challenging Brown’s candidacy based on a statute of the Home Rule Charter, which states that no more than three of the five elected at-large Councilmembers could be affiliated with one party. Brown, who is officially registered with no party, had been registered as a Democrat as recently as May of this year, and even advertised himself in his much-maligned ubiquitous campaign literature as an “independent Democrat.”

Brown, who received over 71,304 votes on Election Day, won an election this time around following in an ill-advised run for Mayor in 2006 and a 14 point defeat to Muriel Bowser for the vacant Ward 4 Council seat in 2007. Republicans are certain to elevate their case to the District’s Court of Appeals after the certification is announced, but one has to believe that they are fighting an uphill battle — even though you’d have a hard time finding anyone arguing that Brown doesn’t represent a “Democratic” agenda.

It’s of note that the election’s 39,327 write-in votes — of which a very large majority went to Republican incumbent Carol Schwartz — combined with Republican primary winner Patrick Mara’s total of 37,264 would have come very, very close to topping Brown’s total. Instead of appealing to discredit Brown’s victory, District Republicans might be better served concentrating on the obvious local fracture within their own party.