As of November 6, when most of the votes had been counted in the November 2 election, the District of Columbia returns showed that the Republican nominee for Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives had only polled 7,401 votes. The D.C. election law requires parties to poll at least 7,500 votes in order to remain on the ballot, and the “shadow U.S. Senate” and “shadow U.S. Representative” elections don’t count. Because the Republicans had not run for any other partisan race in D.C. in 2010, it appeared that the party had gone off the ballot.
But then, on November 6, the D.C. Board of Elections had re-interpreted the election law to say that a party only needs to meet the vote test every four years. This saved the Republican Party’s ballot status, because it had met the vote test for President in 2008.
Now, it turns out that the Republican Party in 2010 did meet the vote test for its nominee for Delegate to the U.S. House. That nominee, Missy Reilly Smith, polled 8,109 votes, when all the absentee and provisional votes were counted.
Where do the Elephants lurk in D.C. — in the yuppy NW zone near the various lobby biz ???
Are they as rare as Elephants in Mass ??? — by percentages.
DC IS A GREAT PLACE FOR REPUBLICANS TO HAVE BALLOT STATUS. WHO CARES?
P.R. in all regimes — even for the scarce Elephants in DC and MA — like the scarce Donkeys in ID, UT, WY, etc.