On May 31, the California Assembly again defeated ACA 9. This is the bill to provide that candidates for Congress and partisan state office who place second still can’t go to the November ballot, if they are write-in candidates and if they poll fewer than approximately 2,300 write-ins for U.S. House, 3,000 for State Senate, 1,500 for Assembly, or 120,000 for statewide office. If this proposed constitutional amendment were enacted, the number of one-candidate elections would increase.

ACA 9 had been defeated on May 29, but the author sought reconsideration. However, the Assembly voted by a ratio of 2:1 to deny reconsideration.