On June 10, the California Secretary of state released the official vote returns for the June 2 primary. Butch Ware, Green Party candidate for Governor, received 22,493 write-ins. He had not been on the ballot because the Secretary of State was not satisfied with the copies of income tax returns that he had submitted.

Ware’s total was greater than the number of votes received by 49 candidates who were listed on the ballot. It was also the largest number of write-ins received in any California top-two primary by a write-in candidate.

States that still haven’t finished holding congressional primaries this year are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

On July 8, a Florida state trial court issued an opinion in Stark v Byrd, Circuit Court, 2nd district, Leon County, 2026CA-1311. This is the case over whether Paula Stark, an incumbent Republican member of the Florida legislature, should be on the Republican primary ballot. The judge ruled that she should not be on the ballot because she didn’t submit one particular campaign finance form. She alleged that her campaign treasurer had turned in the form and that the election office employee had handed it back. But the judge did not believe this claim, and thought it most likely that the campaign treasurer had not handed it in.

Stark can’t be a write-in candidate in November because it is already too late to file as a declared write-in candidate in Florida. Florida has the earliest deadline for filing as a write-in candidate in the nation. It somewhat defeats the purpose of having write-in space on the general election ballot for the deadline to be so early. As a result, no Republican will be on the general election ballot, and the Democratic nominee will be the automatic winner.