Nine candidates are vying for the at-large D.C. Council seat left open by Council Chairman Kwame Brown when he took his new post.
"This is a general election -- every voter in the District is eligible to cast a ballot regardless of party affiliation," said Alysun McGlaughin, of the District’s Board of Elections and Ethics.
Special elections historically have had sparse turnouts. With so many candidates running in Tuesday's special election, the winner, according to local political consultant Chuck Thies, will be the one who did the best job of identifying his or her base of support.
"The strategy should’ve been identify your base: whether it's regional, demographic, issue-based -- and making sure those voters are locked-in on Tuesday and feel as though you are a change agent, because that's what is important in D.C. right now," said Thies.
The polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. on Tuesday.
Click here for the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics voter guide and here for the D.C. League of Women Voters' special election voter guide.
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