On May 30, the plaintiffs in Chamness v. Bowen filed this rebuttal brief. Chamness v. Bowen is the federal lawsuit that challenges two particular details of California’s top-two primary election system: (1) although California prints write-in space on November ballots for Congress and state office, those write-ins can never be counted, even if a write-in candidate receives the most votes; (2) California lets some party members list their party on the ballot but won’t let others do so.

All briefs are now in, and the hearing will be on June 13, 1:30 pm in Los Angeles’ Federal District Court (courtroom 11).