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.

Last month, the board’s executive director, Rokey Suleman, left his job as well. West’s position is mayorally appointed — so at least the agency won’t have to conduct a candidate search as they are for Suleman’s replacement — and Mayor Vince Gray told reporter Nikita Stewart that “he has a replacement in mind.”

West, a former Secretary of Veterans Affairs who charmed the D.C. Council last year by telling them that he was “not been a shadowy presence in politics in the District,” was appointed to the position by then-mayor Adrian Fenty last July.

There is some concern that such wide-spread shuffling at the top of the board responsible for managing elections agency could have a negative effect on the city’s upcoming primaries, which will be held about five months earlier, in April, next year.

And, as we always feel compelled to note in every single post we publish about BOEE affairs, the Mayor still needs to appoint a third member of the board from a minority party. (Offering the chairmanship to a member of the Republican party might not be such a terrible peace offering to make up for the delay.)