Your DC Election Weekend Reads
Whether you've already mailed your ballot or plan to vote early in person, here are some of the more interesting reads from DC's local press
Dear District,
As of Friday morning, 124,641 of you have already cast your ballot—about 2/3 by slipping it into a dropbox and the rest by USPS. That’s 40% of the total votes cast from 2016. DC is well on its way to historic turnout! Don’t forget to track your mail ballot to make sure it was received.
If you haven’t received your mail-in ballot, need to register, or would just prefer to vote in person, early voting starts this Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 8:30am. I’ll be voting in person at Raymond Recreation Center in Ward 4 first thing Tuesday (because our cat marked up my mail ballot, woops).
If you’re still making up your mind, please check out the complete Dear District Voter Guide, or this excellent guide from 730DC. The cliff notes version is that you should vote for Ed Lazere in the contested At-Large race and Mysiki Valentine in the At-Large State Board of Education race.
Interesting Reads
With the last day to vote less than two weeks away, the local DC press have turned their attention to this year’s races. Here are some of the more interesting reads:
^ If you want the real ☕️, please do yourself a favor and look at the “quote RTs” of that tweet.
TODAY: Get Out the Vote Rally
Finally, I wanted to invite you to join me later THIS afternoon, Saturday at 3pm, for a virtual Get Out the Vote Rally featuring Janeese Lewis George, Karl Racine, Elissa Silverman, Ed Lazere, and more. If you want to hear their progressive vision for the city, RSVP here.
As always, thanks for reading! Please share Dear District, and especially these articles I’ve linked, with friends and neighbors who might need help filling out their ballot. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions about voting.
—Dan
Dear District is an independent project of me, Dan Essrow. I’m a designer, writer, and doer of democracy living in DC’s Ward 1.
(Disclosure: I do paid design work for Ed Lazere and Janeese Lewis George. I’m proud to work for them because they are good people with good politics.)
P.S. There is an amazing wealth of local DC reporting—longform and on Twitter. Dear District relies entirely on work from dedicated DC journalists and citizens like Keith Ivey, Erin Palmer, Cuneyt Dil, Fenit Nirappil, Martin Austermuhle, Rachel Kurzius, Tom Sherwood, Mitch Ryals, Perry Stein, Jeffrey Anderson, Amanda Michelle Gómez, and Michael Brice-Saddler.
Here’s some links in case you want more local DC content in your life:
District Links (daily! local DC email)