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Good morning, all. This edition of LL Daily is for all those folks who want to pretend like they care about local politics today.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—LL and the rest of City Paper's Election Day and Night coverage
Voters say [...]

Preliminary stuff: This report is based on 20 of 143 precincts.
D.C. At-Large Race:
Kwame Brown: 46.7 percent
Michael A. Brown: 19.4 percent
Patrick Mara: 12.6 percent
Write-ins: 10.6 percent
Mark Long: 3.5 percent
David Schwartzman: 5.2 percent
Dee Hunter: 2.1 percent
On the late results: Mary Cheh, Ward 3 councilmember and general oversight hawk, slammed the D.C. Board of Elections and [...]

The D.C. elections board is taking its time in releasing returns, and general election revelry is the casualty. Take the election celebration of longtime at-large councilmember and write-in candidate Carol Schwartz. Supporters have been filing out of the party at campaign HQ at 12th and U Streets NW, reducing the crowd to a sparse 20 [...]

Loose Lips managed to get through to D.C. elections board spokesperson Dan Murphy, with a simple question about when the city's election results will be ready:
The response: "I'm not giving an ETA, but I'm hoping that it's gonna be real, real soon."
The elections board, given recent fiascoes in dealing with election results, has [...]

Along with Phinis Jones at Players Lounge.

A couple of observations on the key race of the night–the at-large D.C. Council contest, that is.
Courtesy of Loose Lips Columnist Mike DeBonis.
*The rush happened in the morning, not in the evening. Around the city, not unlike other places, everyone absolutely inundated polling places in the day's early hours. Apparently they just couldn't [...]

Ward 7 Councilmember Yvette Alexander kisses cutout of At-Large Councilmember Kwame Brown at Precinct 110.

From left to right: Murray Belman and James Lowe at Horace Mann Elementary School in Wesley Heights.
James Lowe is here 'til the end. The Wesley Heights resident arrived at Horace Mann Elementary School, just west of American University, at roughly 3:15 p.m. and plans to leave when the polls close at 8 p.m. [...]

The context: Carol Schwartz's effort to get out the write-in vote in today's elections–a funding-intensive undertaking.
The Number: Around $8,000
The Implications: Over the past several days, the Schwartz campaign has sent three so-called "24-hour" campaign finance reports to D.C. authorities. The reports turn up, well, not quite a frenzy of fundraising activity–about $8,000 worth–in the final [...]

The scene outside precinct 16–at 15th and R Streets NW–just before noon today:
*Rep for Jack Evans? Check.
*Rep for Patrick Mara? Check.
*Rep for Michael A. Brown? Check.
*Rep for Kwame Brown? Check.
*Rep for Carol Schwartz? Nowhere in sight.
And that's a huge problem for a candidate who's running a write-in campaign. Think of the scenario: The average voter [...]

LL's been crunching the numbers all night, trying to figure out whether Carol Schwartz and Patrick Mara have a shot to upend Michael A. Brown for the non-Democratic at-large seat.
LL has come up with three scenarios, based on the level of turnout.
All are based on some assumptions: (1) that undervoting (not casting one or both [...]