Two alumni who filed candidacy paperwork last month for positions on the neighborhood’s local governing body failed to collect enough signatures to make it onto the Nov. 6 ballot.
J.P. Blackford and Gabrielle Bluestone did not submit the 25 required signatures before the Aug. 8 deadline, voiding their chances to be listed as official candidates for the Foggy Bottom and West End Advisory Neighborhood Commission, according to a D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics release.
Blackford and Bluestone both did not return requests for comment.
Commissioners each represent smaller constituencies within the neighborhood, called single-member districts. The Foggy Bottom and West End ANC has eight individual districts.
Commissioner David Lehrman will defend the seat he has held for a decade, facing off against challenger Patrick Kennedy, a junior.
Junior Jackson Carnes is running unopposed in one of the two new districts approved by the D.C. Council in March. One district remains candidate-less.