About 13.5 percent of the 173,000 registered voters in Wards 3, 4 and 7 turned out for Tuesday’s special District of Columbia Council and Board of Education election, Board of Elections and Ethics spokesman Bill O’Field said.
The percentage of voters who turned out Tuesday beat the previous special election. On June 27, 2000, 12.2 percent of the city’s 331,000 registered voters turned out to approve a charter amendment on school governance that laid out the current structure for the Board of Education. Mayor Adrian Fenty recently received approval from the council to take all the school board’s policy-setting powers.
