On August 6, between 52% and 53% of Detroit voters cast a write-in vote for Mayor. See this story. This outcome, like the outcome in the Alaska November 2010 U.S. Senate race (won by write-in candidate Lisa Murkowski) is a rebuke to the six U.S. Supreme Court Justices who voted in Burdick v Takushi in 1992 that states have an interest in banning write-in votes. That interest, Justice Byron White wrote, is “stability.” Actually, when laws interfere with the ability of voters to vote for whom they wish, such a restriction is more likely to injure stability than to protect it.

The Sacramento Bee’s “Capitol Alert” has this medium-length story about Cindy Sheehan’s plans to run for Governor of California in 2014. She has already been endorsed by the Peace & Freedom Party, and she is a member of that party.

According to this story, the Connecticut Secretary of State recently ruled that two or more candidates for different offices in the same jurisdiction may appear on the same petition, for primary ballot access.