D.C. elections officials are complaining that they’re not receiving the necessary funds to conduct the April 23 special election.

Mayor Vince Gray is reportedly considering Deborah Nichols, the former D.C. Auditor, as his choice to head up the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics.

D.C. Auditor Deborah Nichols will be allowed “immediate, unrestricted access to approximately 1,000 boxes of documents” related to real estate deals that came out of the now dissolved National Capital Revitalization Corporation and Anacostia Waterfront Corporation, thanks to a settlement agreement announced Wednesday. Nichols had been battling in court with D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles over access to the files, since Nickles had argued that the auditor’s subpoena would place too big a burden on…