New York held primaries for Congress on June 28. Write-ins in New York primaries are not permitted unless someone files a petition asking that primary write-ins be counted. Once that petition is accepted, all write-ins are valid, whether the write-in candidate wanted write-ins counted or not.

In the 12th district, in the Reform Party, Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald Trump, won the Reform nomination with 2 write-ins. There were also three individuals who received one write-in each. Here is the New York City Board of Elections certification for that primary.

Ivanka Trump is free to decline the nomination. Here is a news story about that primary. Thanks to Frank Morano for the link and to Independent Political Report for the link to the certification.

July 22 was the deadline for candidates to file for the Louisiana general election of November 8. Here is the list of candidates. For U.S. Senate, 24 candidates filed: nine Republicans, seven Democrats, two Libertarians, and six candidates who are either independents or who are registered into an unqualified party. One of the nine Republicans is David Duke, who was the Populist Party presidential nominee in 1988.

For U.S. House, Louisiana has six districts. All districts have at least two candidates on the November ballot, although no Republican is running in the 2nd district, and no Democrat is running in the 5th district. Libertarians are running in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 6th districts. A Green is running in the 1st district. The Reform Party is ballot-qualified but it has no candidates for Congress.

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory still hasn’t acted on SB 667, which was sent to him by the legislature on July 1. It changes the order of candidates on the ballot, for State Court of Appeals races. Current law says candidates are listed in random order. Party labels appear on the ballot but parties do not nominate candidates for that office. If the bill is signed, candidates who are listed as Republicans will automatically be listed first. The bill says that candidates who are members of the party that won the last gubernatorial election are listed on top. McCrory is a Republican.