Indiana’s deadline for write-in candidates to file for write-in status is July 5. In the past it was in October, but sometime in the last few years, the legislature made it far earlier. Such an early deadline is irrational. One of the chief purposes of allowing write-ins is so that voters retain flexibility if unexpected events occur during the last few months of the election campaign.

The second earliest write-in filing deadline is in Florida, July 12. The print issue of Ballot Access News, July 1, 2016, has all these deadlines.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has this story about the order of a U.S. District Court of June 30, setting the statewide petition requirement in Pennsylvania this year at exactly 5,000. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has this story.

Austria held a presidential election run-off on May 22. On July 1, the highest court said there were flaws in the election process, and the election must be run again, probably in September or October. See this story, which says this appears to be the first time any election to choose a head of state, or head of government, has been re-done. However, commentor Bob Richard says a similar result occurred in Ukraine in 2004.