Williams wins write-in primary campaign
In a Washington, D.C. mayoral primary election based on write-in ballots, Mayor Anthony A. Williams earned his spot on the Democratic ballot yesterday afternoon.
Williams' votes totaled 61,848, compared to a 20,689 count for Anacostia minister Willie F. Wilson.
Four candidates were named on the ballot, yet the race came down to the two write-in candidates, Wilson and Williams.
Ninety-one percent of the totaled votes were write-ins.
Williams decided to run a write-in campaign after losing a spot on the Democratic primary ballot.
The city's election board and an appeals court prohibited Williams from appearing on the Democratic primary ballot after authorities found Williams and his campaign staff guilty of forging 1,290 petition signatures. Officials fined the campaign $277,700 and called for criminal probes on some staff members.
Wilson started his own write-in campaign shortly after Williams' decision.
Former D.C. Council member Douglas E. Moore, James W. Clark, Osie L. Thorpe and Faith, a candidate with only a single name, made up the candidates who appeared on the ballot.
The candidates did not make a significant showing in the campaigning, only mustering single-digit vote tallies.
Williams will go up against a D.C. Statehood Green Party nominee in the Nov. 5 mayoral election.
No Republican candidate currently appears on the November ballot, but the Republican Party Board might name D.C. Council member Carol Schwartz as a candidate.
Schwartz supporters tried to recruit her for the position by starting a write-in campaign.
Williams, however, garnered more write-in votes at 1,707 compared to Schwartz's 999 in the GOP primary. Williams is not permitted to be the candidate to both parties.
The mayor currently enjoys support from nine out of 10 white voters and a slight majority of black voters, according to a Washington Post exit poll.
His inability to carry a strong majority of support from black voters worries his campaign and has become a major issue in his election, a Post article stated.
-- Compiled by Deirdre Murphy
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