The Washington Post, December 20th, 2007
Mary Stratton Rodgers, 82, the District's longtime former elections administrator, who persevered through some of the legendary debacles of Washington's local election nights, died of complications of a hip fracture Nov. 18 at Sibley Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Rodgers was credited with helping tame what was called "a kind of electoral Hellzapoppin' " in the early years of home rule. And although she sometimes contemplated quitting, she didn't. "You have to see a job through," she told The Washington Post in 1987 just before she retired after 20 years in the elections office. "You can't run away f...
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