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- Fenty Headquarters on Georgia Ave and Peabody at 6:40 AM. "We've been out here since five," said Helen Hare, Fenty Communications Director.
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- At Melvin Sharpe Health School on 13th St, in Northwest. A small line gathers for the polls to open at 7 AM.
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- Gray volunteers Terri Copeland and Judith Terra at Sharpe Health School at 6:50 am.
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- A line of voters waiting to be let in to the polling station at 7:03 AM at Good Will Baptist Church in Adams Morgan at Columbia and Kalorama Rd, NW.
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- Phillip Fenty at Good Will Baptist Church at Kalorama and Columbia Rds, NW at 7:08 AM.
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- 7:35 AM at Good Will Baptist Church at Kalorama and Columbia Rds, NW: the Graham sign is situated within the 50 foot no electioneering limit. At 7:38 AM, precinct 25 captain Linda Softli after a voter told her about it inside the polling place.
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- At 7:52 AM - this time on the correct side of the electioneering line - Councilmember Jim Graham's camp offers bagels and cream cheese, cookies and coffee at the polling station at Marie H. Reed Community Learning Center at 18th St and Kalorama Rd, NW.
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- Elections Observers Kenlee Ray and Bill O'Field inside the Reeves Building at 14th and U Streets, NW at 8:32 AM. Behind them is a line of approximately 20 voters.
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- New sign from the Board of Elections and Ethics outside Garrison Elementary School at 12th and S Streets, NW.
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- Inside the polling station at Garrison Elementary School at 12th and S St, NW. There were problems with the touchscreen voting machine and the label printer for the special ballots.
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- The choices for the Ward 1 Councilmember - Jim Graham, Jeff Smith, Bryan Weaver - outside Garrison Elementary School at 12th and S Streets, NW at 9:15 AM.
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- Inside the polling place at Shiloh Baptist Church at 1510 9th St, NW. Problems with the touch screen voting machine are being experienced, as has been the case in 4 out of the 5 precincts we've visited.
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- Shiloh Baptist Church at 1510 9th St, NW at 9:39 AM. The Board of Elections and Ethics new practice is to post the opening tape of the optical scan voting machine.
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- A check-in clerk at Hendley Elementary School, Precinct 125, 600 Chesapeake St, SE at 10:15 AM.
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- Andrew Green, age 15, with his mother, Helen Green at Hendley Elementary at 600 Chesapeake St, SE at 10:20 AM. Both Ms. Green and her son are election day workers; Andrew is a volunteer.
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- Youth poll workers Tamiah Roberts, a senior at Cesar Chavez Public Charter Scool, and Andrew Green, a 10th grader at Highroad High School. Both have been at Hendley Elementary School at 600 Chesapeake St, SE from when the polls opened (7 AM) and will be here till the polls close (8 PM).
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- Dolores Bryant, an educational aide at Hendley Elementary School, selling baked goods to raise money for the school.
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- Polling place at W.B. Patterson Elementary School at 4399 South Capitol Terrace at 11:03 AM. As with the other polling places visited, there were problems with the touch voting machine. In this case, the touch voting machine was pulling up ballots from wards other than ward 8. Later the machine malfunctioned by not bringing up the candidate's name.
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- New Image Community Baptist Church polling place at 1839 Alabama Ave, SE at 12:03 PM. The E-Poll Book labeller was experiencing problems, as has been the case at each of the polling places we've asked about it.
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- Washington Senior Wellness Center at 3000 Alabama, SE at 12:40 PM. "The Blue Team" - supporters of Vince Gray, Phil Mendelson, and Kwame Brown - Jerome and Connie Brocks, Kanika Brookins and Brenda Featherstone.
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- Gray supporter Joyce Moreland outside Washinton Seniors Wellness Center.
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- Sign outside East Washington Heights Baptist Church (which is NOT a polling place) at Alabama and Branch Avenues, SE at 1:02 PM
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- Polling place at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church at 3601 Alabama Ave, SE at 1:20 PM. Things are running smoothly, with one major exception: a number of folks who should be on the ballot - like a woman who cast a regular ballot in the 2008 presidential election - now must re-register.
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- Shadow Representative Mike Panetta in front of the polling station at Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church, precinct 108 at 1:53 PM. The Precinct Captain reports that things are running smoothly.
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- The voting booths lit up in the auditorium at McKinley Tech at 151 T St, NE, Precinct 75 at 5:50 PM.
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- In order for poll workers to last all day, it turns out they need food. This is the break room for the polling place at precinct 135 at Bethel Baptist Church at 6:22 PM.
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- Doug Sloan, candidate for Delegate to the U.S. House of Representative, outside the polling location at Hine Junior High School at Eastern Market, 7th and C St, SE at 3:35 PM
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- At-large D.C. Council candidate Michael Brown - not to be confused with Councilmember Michael Brown - and his daughter Tricia outside the polling place at MedLink at 7th and O Streets, NE at 4:58 PM.
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- Polling place at Mount Bethel Baptist Church - precinct 135 - at 1901 First St, NW in the church hall at 6:14 PM.
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- At 8:30 PM at Columbia and Kalorama Roads, NW, the polling place at Good Will Baptist Church has closed and the signs come up (at least the Gray signs).
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- 10:05 PM at One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St, NW. The vote count is under way. These computers are being prepped for the special ballots, said Michael Mullen, IT Project Manager for the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics.
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- 10:20 PM at One Judiciary Square at 441 4th St, NW. These are the touchscreen voting machines tabulating election results from the five early vote centers.
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- 11:15 PM at Board of Elections and Ethics' offices at 441 4th St, NW. Board of Elections and Ethics workers recording serial numbers.
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- Board of Elections and Ethics Executive Director Rokey Suleman announcing precinct results at 2nd floor BOEE offices at 11:24 PM. Early results are for Gray.
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- Tony Norman at the Board of Elections and Ethics at 441 4th St, NW on primary election night, September 14, 2010.
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- At 1:49 AM at Washington Court Hotel at 525 New Jersey Ave, NW, D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray gave his victory speech.
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- 2:53 AM. It's over. Adrian Fenty, who won every precinct four years ago, suffered a devastating defeat tonight at the hands of D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray. Fenty's campaign headquarters at Georgia Ave and Peabody St is emptied out and swept clean.
In these last days before the September 14th primary election, District of Columbia Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is expected to make a number of campaign appearances on behalf of her boss, Mayor Adrian Fenty. Saturday morning, Rhee addressed a rally of Fenty supporters that took place within walking distance of an early voting site in Chevy Chase. Later that morning, Rhee teamed up with Fenty supporters at Eastern Market and marched around the early voting center located there.
