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Assistant poll captain Glinder Barnes (left) helps Mattie B. Butts (right) cast her vote at Precinct 116 inside the New Image Baptist Church on Alabama Avenue Southeast in Washington on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Posters for Ward 8 D.C. Council candidates surround former Ward 8 Democratic Party head Jacque Patterson (second from left), who is running for a council seat from the ward, as he hugs Kathy Arnold, a supporter of incumbent council member Marion Barry, also a Democrat, outside Precinct 116 at the New Image Baptist Church on Alabama Avenue Southeast in Washington on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. Also pictured is Jasmine Westbrook (left), a Howard University sophomore volunteering with Mr. Patterson, and Craig Leak (right), a volunteer with council candidate Sandra Seegers. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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D.C. voters leave the Palisades Recreation Center in Washington after casting their ballots in the primary election on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2012. The only real contested race in this ward was for an at-large council seat. Voter turnout was not huge, but there was a steady stream of voters coming in. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Former Ward 8 Democratic Party head Jacque Patterson (right), running for a D.C. Council seat from the ward, and Melvin Chandler (left), a volunteer with Mr. Patterson, leave after Mr. Patterson casts his vote at Precinct 116 at the New Image Baptist Church on Alabama Avenue Southeast in Washington on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Former Ward 8 Democratic Party head Jacque Patterson, running for D.C. Council, casts his vote at Precinct 116 at the New Image Baptist Church on Alabama Avenue Southeast in Washington on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Former Ward 8 Democratic Party head Jacque Patterson, running for a D.C. Council seat from the ward, gives Jasmine Westbrook (center), a Howard University sophomore volunteering with Mr. Patterson, a shirt to wear outside Precinct 116 at the New Image Baptist Church on Alabama Avenue Southeast in Washington on election day, Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Clare Archer takes a moment to decide her vote as her 6-year-old son, Jack, looks on. She was one of the D.C. voters who cast their ballots at the Palisades Recreation Center in the primary election on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2012, in Washington. The only real contested race in this ward was for an at-large council seat. Voter turnout was not huge, but there was a steady stream of voters coming in. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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While a voter waits his turn to use the touch-screen voting machine at the Palisades Recreation Center in Washington, ballot clerk Frank Gainer (center) looks over as Cheryl Bruner votes in the D.C. primary election on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2012. The only real contested race in this ward was for an at-large council seat. Voter turnout was not huge, but there was a steady stream of voters coming in. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Voter Bernette Green (left) passes a gantlet of campaign volunteers as she makes her way along Alabama Avenue Southeast to cast her vote at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A poster of incumbent D.C. Council member Marion Barry, Ward 8 Democrat, can be seen behind volunteers for his opponent, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Sandra Seegers, outside Precinct 116 at the New Image Baptist Church on Alabama Avenue Southeast in Washington on primary election day, Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Michele Hamlett-Crayon is joined by her granddaughter Keyasia Crayon, 2 1/2, as she votes at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Election officials wait at the table to assist arriving voters at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Voters trickle in at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A voter passes a gantlet of campaign supporters as she makes her way to her voting precinct at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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D. C. Council member Yvette Alexander (left), Ward 7 Democrat, and challenger Tom Brown (right) chat with supporters and passing voters at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander, Ward 7 Democrat, casts her ballot at the Randle Highlands Elementary School in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander arrives to vote at her Ward 7 precinct at Randle Highlands Elementary School in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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In the pre-dawn hours, election officials (from left) Denise McNeal, Charles Hudson and Quanic Jenkins prepare voting equipment at the Randle Highlands Elementary School in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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President Obama speaks April 3, 2012, at the Associated Press luncheon during the ASNE Convention in Washington. (Associated Press)
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Three national leaders attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit — (from left) Laotian Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and Myanmar President Thein Sein — join hands during a group photo at the opening ceremony of the bloc's 20th summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
