On June 20, California State Assemblymember Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin) introduced ACA 16, which would repeal the top-two system and return to the system in effect 2000-2010. During those years, independent voters were always allowed to vote in all Republican and Democratic primaries for congress and partisan state office. Here is the text.

The measure needs two-thirds in each house to pass, and if it did pass the legislature, then the voters would vote on it. Thanks to Eric Wong for this news.

Assemblymember Kiley represents the part of California that is mostly in the State Senate Fourth District. This is the fourth-most Republican Senate district in the state, by registration, and yet this is the district in which voters are barred by the top-two system from voting for any Republican this coming November.

On June 20, Al Gross said he will withdraw from the Alaska U.S. House race. He placed in the top four in the special primary, and the law permits withdrawal from the primary but says the withdrawal must be made at least 64 days before the general election. According to this story, Gross withdrew too late. But the story also says that the proponents of the top-four initiative say the intent is to have a shorter deadline for special elections. If the initiative proponents are right and the state allows the fifth-place finisher to join the special general election in place of the withdrawn candidate, then there will be three Republicans and one Democrat on the special general election ballot in August.

Various political activists in Missouri with Republican Party backgrounds are hoping to launch a petition drive for John F. Wood as an independent candidate for U.S. Senate. See this story. The petition would need 10,000 signatures by July 25.