This year is the first time the city has mailed a ballot to every registered voter for a primary election.
This election is an experiment in the District: It’s the first time the city has mailed a ballot to every registered voter for a primary election, after trying it out in 2020 during the Ward 2 special election and later, the general election. In the District, where the vast majority of voters are Democrats, the party’s primary is the main event.
Gail Perkins, one of 35 people who had voted at Turkey Thicket by 11 a.m., said her concern about rising violence led her to the polls. “It’s just devastating for me and all mothers,” said Perkins, who wore her Spingarn Class of 1972 T-shirt to mark her lengthy history in D.C. “It’s just absurd how we’re losing our babies. Who would have thought we’d be coming to a time like this?”While Perkins wishes that Mayor Muriel E.
“What do you think about the crime? What’s up with that?” Fletcher said he would work on social-emotional learning and job training to help prepare young people to avoid crime, and Perkins nodded approvingly. “Absolutely. They don’t have any alternatives,” she said. “An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.”
Still, while the Washington Teachers’ Union endorsed White, Bainum said she was “not especially” excited about him. “He has a boarding-school proposal that I’m not sure how I feel about. I’d rather focus on the schools we already have.”
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