Four more years!

228,062 people, or 53.44 percent of registered D.C. voters, flooded the polls yesterday for the Nov. 4th general elections, and the D.C. Board of Election & Ethics handled them with less difficulty than we expected. This morning, DCBOEE posted unofficial election results, complete with an At-Large surprise:

92.46 percent of D.C. voters cast their ballots for Barack Obama (D)–who won the whole thing last night, by the way.

Voters ushered Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) back to her seat as Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives with a handy 92.32 percent of votes. She’ll be joined on the Hill by Shadow Representative Mike Panetta (D) and Shadow Senator Paul Strauss (D)-because like Alaskan voters, D.C. voters think a little legal trouble ain’t no thing.

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 These blurry Eastern European people came to an ANC meeting once to learn about democracy. Really!

The Advisory Neighborhood Commission might not sound interesting, but it’s actually a hotbed of intrigue. Check out last night’s meeting:

• Commissioner Bill Skelsey, who didn’t register to run in today’s election and now has to be a write-in, propped up a little sign over Commissioner Tom Birch’s name placard that said “Bill Skelsey–Write-in”.
• The ANC voted to stop being tax scofflaws and pay the $3,000 in back taxes and penalties it owed the IRS.
• Wells Thomason, an adorable young man with a name like a robber baron, read a community comment thanking Georgetown students for frequenting his lemonade and cookies stand. He made $1,590 and gave it to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Kudos, Wells and students.

Also, Councilman Jack Evans’s Republican opponent Christina Culver showed up to hit her opponent on the tax theft scandal and promise a better environment for businesses. Big mistakes, because everyone knows that actually the way to run against Evans is to tease him for moonlighting.

If you’re registered to vote in DC, there are already way too many things you won’t be seeing on your ballot this November. That’s why Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E commissioner and local architect Bill Skelsey deserves a kick in the pants for failing to file the paperwork necessary to get his name on the ballot on time. In a message to members of the ANC’s Yahoo group “Georgetown Forum,” Skelsey wrote:

 ”Due to my work schedule, I unfortunately missed the filing dealine to officially put my name on the ballot. When you are at the polls on Nov. 2, if you live in District 03 there will be no ANC candidate listed on your voting card or electronic screen. Please know that I am running as a Write-In candidate.” (ANC 2E’s District 03 runs lies between Wisconsin and the University, and N Street and Volta place.)

Skelsey, who in his last term dabbled in off-campus keg bans, gets points for announcing his write-in candidacy with less obnoxious aplomb than Carol Schwartz, but not much else. Five other commissioners with full-time jobs (Skelsey is an architect), and one Georgetown student, all managed to file their paperwork on time–one wonders why being an architect makes that so hard.

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