California Assemblywoman Audra Strickland has tentatively agreed to introduce a bill to moderate the California minimum vote threshold for write-in candidates at partisan primaries. Slightly over half the states permit write-in votes in partisan primaries. Most of these states set a minimum number of write-ins needed for someone to win a primary by write-in vote. California has one of the most stringent such minimum vote tests. It is so severe, no one got nominated by write-in at California’s June 2006 primary, even though there were 7 races in which one of the two major parties tried very hard to nominate someone by write-in (in all 7 cases, no one had qualified to appear on the primary ballot of that party, so a write-in nomination was the only hope for that party to have a nominee on the November ballot).