Tony Quinn, a California Republican with more than thirty years experience in government and in the political consulting business, has this column in Fox & Hounds. The column expresses fear that the November 2018 California gubernatorial election will only have two Democrats on the ballot. He writes that if that happens, Republican voters will not turn out to vote, and any statewide ballot measures will be decided mostly by Democratic voters. For the last few years, California law has dictated that all statewide initiatives appear only on general election ballots, not primary ballots.

Quinn was a fervent backer of the top-two system when it passed in June 2010.

The Week has this perceptive essay by Meagan Day, asking why Democrats are so infuriated by voters who vote for the Green Party for president, yet pay so little attention to all the voters who left president blank on their 2016 ballots, or who didn’t vote at all.

The Sacramento Bee has this op-ed by Mike Feinstein of the California Green Party. It criticizes AB 469, which shrinks the amount of time available for candidates to get on a California primary ballot, if the candidate wishes to circulate the petition in lieu of the filing fee. The bill does also shrink the number of signatures, but the reduction in the number of signatures is smaller proportionately than the amount of lost time.

AB 469 has already passed the Assembly and has a hearing in the Senate Elections Committee on Tuesday, June 20.