some of the workers at lasallee. take a look at this video of them rolling screens out for the democratic primary. right now mayor vincent gray and councilman bowse are neck and neck. we are talking about 28 person of the likelihood to his campaign. we have trained over 16,000 poll workers. we have two working and three at the larger precincts. so check-in should be much faster than our voters have seen in the past. >> reporter: a total of eight democratic candidates in the race for mayor today. the winner today will take on council member david catania. >>> and there will be a new council member in ward 6 replacing tommy wells. the candidates facing off are charles allen and darrell thompson. jim graham is facing a challenge from communications consultant brianne nado. graham represented world war i for 15 years. >>> find out more from every candidate by going to nbcwashington.com to search for results. you can be the first to know when that jorge torrez killed amanda snell in 2009. torrez already is serving a life