On June 14, the Los Angeles County Democratic Party Executive Committee resolved to work for the restoration of write-in space on California general election ballots. Currently, California allows write-ins in non-partisan elections, and in primaries, but not in general elections for Congress and partisan state office. The legislature removed write-in space from those elections in 2012.

California and Louisiana are the only states that ever permitted write-ins in general elections, and then took write-in space away from the voters. Thanks to Diana Shaw for this news.

The Sun, San Bernardino’s daily newspaper, invited readers to comment on California’s top-two system. It then published the comments of seven individuals. See them here.

Filing has closed for Vermont’s primaries. No Democrat is running for Lieutenant Governor. The incumbent Republican Lieutenant Governor, Phil Scott, is running for re-election. The Progressive Party is running Dean Corren for Lieutenant Governor, and Corren, a former Progressive Party state legislator, has qualified for public funding, so he will probably have more financial resources for his campaign than Scott does.

Vermont has public funding for only two offices, Governor and Lieutenant Governor. The program had not previously been used by any candidate since 2004. Corren had to raise contributions from 750 voters in order to qualify, and those contributions had to equal $17,500. Individual contributions did not count above $50, and no single county could contribute more than 25% of the total needed. Corren will receive $200,000 in public funding.

Here is the list of primary candidates. The Liberty Union Party has nominees for six of the seven statewide offices; the Democratic Party has nominees for six of the seven offices; the Republican Party only has nominees for three of the seven statewide offices; the Progressive Party has nominees for three of the seven offices and is cross-endorsing the Democratic nominee for Auditor. The Secretary of State’s list does not list the nominees of unqualified parties, nor does it list the independent candidates. The Libertarian Party, which is on the ballot but which is not eligible to nominate by primary, has a nominee for Governor but no other statewide office.