A last-minute lawsuit has put on hold a planned referendum to overturn the D.C. Council’s repeal of Initiative 77.

Perhaps the most shocking thing about the vote on the ballot referendum amending the District’s Home Rule Charter to claim budget autonomy is that 12.28 percent of people actually voted against it.

It’s Special Election Day in D.C., so go and cast your ballot!

Tomorrow you’ll have a chance to finally let D.C. have more control over its own money. Don’t let it go to waste.

Two weeks worth of early voting for the April 23 At-Large special election kick off today.

D.C. activists today kicked off their campaign to urge voters to vote in an April 23 referendum that would grant the city more control over its own money.

The D.C. Board of Elections today announced that it was putting a referendum on budget autonomy on the ballot for the April 23 special election.

Gallaudet University has reinstated the administrator that was placed on leave last year after it was revealed that she signed a petition to put same-sex marriage on the Maryland ballot.

At a hearing this morning, members of the D.C. Board of Elections heard competing views on whether a proposed referendum on enhanced budget autonomy would be legal—and whether they even have the power to make that determination themselves.

D.C. Attorney General Irv Nathan has asked that the D.C. Board of Elections scrap a planned referendum on D.C. budget autonomy saying in a letter that the measure is illegal.