New York magazine has this story on California general election ballots in California. For the partisan offices, except for president, there are no Republican candidates in portions of Los Angeles County that have over 800,000 registered voters. Thanks to Carla Marinucci for the link.

The California Republican Party officially opposed top-two when it was on the ballot in June 2010, and also when it was on the ballot in November 2004. However, the 2010 top-two effort was pushed through the legislature by Republican State Senator Abel Maldonado and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the ballot measure campaign, the chief funder for the top-two measure was Charles T. Munger, Jr., a Republican Party officer in Santa Clara County.

The Oklahoma State Election Board has released new voter registration data. The percentages: Republican 45.61%; Democratic 39.71%; independent and miscellaneous 14.52%; Libertarian .17%.

At the January 15, 2016 tally, the percentages were: Republican 43.65%; Democratic 43.48%; independent and miscellaneous 12.88%. There was no Libertarian tally at that time. The state started tallying Libertarians for the first time this year in April, when there were 344 Libertarians. Now there are 3,599 Libertarians. The state is still tallying Americans Elect, and there are eleven voters registered that way. Those voters will soon be converted to independents, no matter what those voters want.

The legislature passed SB 1019 in 2016, authorizing the State Election Board to remove the names of all parties from the voter registration form. The applicant would write in the name of the desired party. However, the bill doesn’t require the Board to remove the names of parties, and the Board has chosen to keep the names of the qualified parties on the form.

Great Britain does not permit write-ins. This is mostly because the ballot access laws are so tolerant, anyone in Britain who wants to get on the ballot for House of Commons generally is able to do so. This BBC article, intended mostly for British readers, explains how write-ins work in the U.S., with special attention to write-ins for President.