Despite landslide Prince George’s County executive race loss, Tonya Sweat keeps fighting

Tonya Sweat’s first gig in Washington, D.C., was entangled in the 2000 presidential election recount controversy. Decades later, she finds herself at the center of her own ballot dispute. Then an Air Force attorney, Sweat advised the task force organizing the 2001 inauguration. The committee had to coordinate with two viable presidents-elect until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a month after the election to end a recount in Florida, granting former President George W. Bush a razor-thin victory over Democrat Al Gore. “I watched that in real time, and I thought we had learned a lesson,” said Sweat, who ran as an unaffiliated write-in candidate for Prince George’s County executive this year. “And now, here we are, 26 years later, and I’m standing in the middle of it.” On Nov. 3, voters reelected County Executive Aisha Braveboy over Sweat much more conclusively. Still, Sweat spent Veterans Day on Wednesday protesting the midterm results outside the county’s elections board office.

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