Oregon held presidential primaries for three parties on May 17. No names were printed on the Independent Party’s primary ballot. Election officials promised to tally all the write-ins in that primary, since it is the write-in votes that will determine who won. Election officials say this is such a big job, they may not get it done until June 16.

The Independent Party wanted the names of certain presidential candidates to be printed on its presidential primary ballot, but the Secretary of State refused.

The Hoover Institution’s publication, Eureka, has this commentary about California’s top-two system by Steve Greenhut. It also has this commentary by Paul “Pete” Peterson.

UPDATE: the Greenhut piece has been republished in R Street, a Washington, D.C. politics blog. Also, it is in the Highland Community News (San Bernardino County).

The last time the Green Party completed a petition to be on the 2016 ballot for President was in the fall of 2015, when it completed its Arkansas presidential petition. The Nevada Green Party seems likely to be the first state Green Party to finish a petition during calendar year 2016. It has approximately 9,000 signatures and will submit the petition on June 1 or June 2. The legal requirement is 5,431. The Nevada Green Party got significant help from some individuals who had been working for the Bernie Sanders campaign, and who became angry with the recent Democratic delegate selection process in Nevada.