Republicans run in Washington, DC???
The system in DC is designed to elect a couple Republicans to the city council, because there are four at-large seats, and the system elects two at-large seats at a time, the top two finishers in the general election. However, each party is only allowed to nominate one candidate. Schwartz was a very libertarian Republican, and very pro-gay rights. She got knocked off by some generic Republican, and the Democrats finally figured out how to game the system -- get a prominent Democrat to run as an Independent. The other Republican, David Catania, is openly gay, and switched to Independent during the 2004 election, because he was invited, then uninvited to the Republican convention, and also there was the whole Rove gaybashing-to-drive-evangelical-turnout strategy. So now a system designed to elect two Republicans elects zero.
This system is pretty blatantly undemocratic.
