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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.

According to the Board, 43,394 ballots were counted yesterday, which means only 9.5 percent of D.C. voted for its new at-large member of the Council, Vincent Orange. The percentage will rise as BOEE counts absentee, provisional and curbside ballots, so there’s the possibility that the figure could sneak back into the double digits — another 2,300 or so ballots are needed to get back above ten percent. Still, it’s kind of a downer that, despite there being such an uproar about District voting rights, less than one out of every ten people appear to have voted in a local election that will affect their day-to-day lives.