The Alabama Democratic Party’s certification of its two primary candidates for the upcoming special election, U.S. House, First District, was an hour past the deadline. However, the Secretary of State accepted the filing anyway. See this story.

The Michigan Secretary of State refused to accept Gary Johnson’s 2011 withdrawal from the Republican presidential primary, even though Johnson was only three minutes late. That sad result harmed all the voters who wished to vote for Johnson in November, because he was kept off the November ballot and thus voters who wanted to vote for him had to cast a write-in vote. Thanks to David Schoen for the link. UPDATE: here is a newspaper story.

On August 6, Seattle held non-partisan primaries for city office, including four of the city’s nine city council seats. Seattle elects all its city council members at-large. Candidates file for one particular position, and voters vote separately for each position. Kshama Sawant, a leader of Socialist Alternative Party, polled 33% in a three-candidate race. She will now run in November against incumbent Richard Conlin in a two-person race. Conlin polled 49%. See this story. Thanks to Scott West for the news.

With only 5% of Detroit precincts counted, there are more write-in votes for Mayor than for any particular ballot-listed candidate. See this story.