On September 11, the Arizona Secretary of State released the official tally of votes from the August 28 primaries. This is the first knowledge anyone has had of the write-ins in the primaries. Four parties held primaries: Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Green. Neither of the last two parties had any candidates’ names printed on their primary ballots for any federal or state office. Instead, these parties attempted to nominate via write-ins in the primaries.
Arizona law on the minimum number of write-ins is highly discriminatory. If a party has earned qualified status at either this election, or the preceding election, then it can nominate with just one write-in vote, assuming the write-in candidate has no opponent in the primary. But if the party has been continuously qualified for five years or more previously, then it must have thousands of write-ins to nominate for statewide office, and hundreds to nominate for district office.
Thus, the Green Party was permitted to nominate for U.S. Senate. Its sole candidate for that office, Angela Green, received 389 write-ins. But the sole Libertarian write-in candidate in the Libertarian primary for U.S. Senate, Adam Kokesh, was not deemed nominated, even though he polled 2,159 write-ins. Similar results occurred for other offices as well. See the results here. Thanks to Richard Grayson for the link.
A Libertarian Party lawsuit against the Arizona primary ballot access laws for continuously qualified minor parties is pending in the Ninth Circuit. All the briefs have been submitted, but there is no date yet for the oral argument. The U.S. District Court had upheld the law.