Still no funding for D.C.’s Ward 5 election

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Less than three months before the District’s planned special election planned for former Councilman Harry Thomas Jr.’s seat, the Board of Elections and Ethics says it still doesn’t know where it’ll get the $319,000 to pay for it.

The board’s executive director Clifford Tatum told a D.C. council committee on Wednesday the election planned for May 15 is still unfunded.

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