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.