The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics says Republican Patrick Mara and Democrat Bryan Weaver have preliminarily survived challenges to the petitions they filed to be on the ballot for an April 26 special election to fill at-large council seat.
Ward 8 resident Jacque Patterson, however, is likely to be off the ballot because the elections board says it could not verify all 3,000 of his required signatures. Patterson wrote on Twitter that he plans to appeal.
The ballots were challenged by interim at-large Councilman Sekou Biddle, whose seat is up for grabs next month. Some of his challenges have been frivolous. Biddle challenged the signatures of former Mayor Adrian Fenty, Weaver’s wife, and on one petition, his own.
Weaver must get change of address forms signed by 52 petition signers to get on the ballot.
