On June 10, the California Secretary of state released the official vote returns for the June 2 primary. Butch Ware, Green Party candidate for Governor, received 22,493 write-ins. He had not been on the ballot because the Secretary of State was not satisfied with the copies of income tax returns that he had submitted.

Ware’s total was greater than the number of votes received by 49 candidates who were listed on the ballot. It was also the largest number of write-ins received in any California top-two primary by a write-in candidate.