The District’s 72,000 independent voters won’t get a chance to vote in the Sept. 14 Democratic primary as Mayor Adrian Fenty’s re-election campaign had hoped.
Late last week, the mayor’s campaign petitioned the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics to interpret a new voting law that allows voters to register on the same day as the primary as also allowing independent voters to sign up as Democrats and vote. The board denied the petition after a hearing on Wednesday morning, saying the D.C. Council made clear that it did want voters from other parties to have the opportunity to vote in the historically closed primary.
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