On June 15, Krist Novoselic dropped out of the August 2009 primary for County Clerk of Wahkiakum County, Washington. He got almost as much publicity by dropping out as he got by filing. See this story. He said he had always planned to withdraw, and that he had filed just to publicize his point that the Washington state “top-two” is not fair to political parties because it lets anyone on the ballot with that party label, no matter what the party thinks of the candidate.