On May 12, supporters of Donna Frye, the write-in candidate for Mayor of San Diego last November, withdrew their lawsuit over whether all of her write-ins should be tallied. The issue was those write-ins in which the voter wrote her in, but forgot to “x” the box next to the write-in line. The Frye voters withdrew their lawsuit because there will be a special election for Mayor on July 26, 2005 anyway. Also, it is now likely that the California legislature will pass a bill to legalize that type of write-in vote. Bills to do that have each passed in the house of origin. They are AB 43 and SB 1050. Since the bills are not identical, one of them still must pass the other house. Withdrawing the Frye lawsuit makes it even more likely that one of the bills will be signed into law.