This article about the Pennsylvania May 2026 primary exposes a long-standing problem with Pennsylvania vote-counting policies. Every county decides for itself whether to count write-in votes. This has always been true, and it is true for both primaries and general elections. Pennsylvania is the only populous states that allows write-ins, but which has no law on filing as a declared write-in candidate. In theory Pennsylvania law requires that all write-ins be counted. But that isn’t practical, because it is so much work and also because many of the write-ins are frivolous. If Pennsylvania had a law requiring write-in candidates to file a declaration of candidacy if they want their write-ins counted, that would be practical and fair.

Jonathan Makeley is the Prohibition Party’s nominee for Governor of New York this year. He will not attempt to get on the ballot, but will ask for write-in votes. Here is his website.

The last time the Prohibition Party nominated a candidate for Governor of New York was in 1926, when the nominee polled .73% of the vote.

On May 18, the Kansas Secretary of State removed No Labels Party from the ballot and said the party’s 2026 nominees will not appear on the ballot. He also converted all the party’s registrants into independents, without even advising them of the change. On May 28, the party’s state chair filed a lawsuit to keep the party alive. Miller v Schwab, Shawnee County District Court, 5N2026cv510. Here is the party’s brief.

The Kansas Secretary of State acted as he did because the party’s former officer asked him to remove the party. That former officer is now a registered Republican. The current officers were elected at a state convention earlier this year.