I did read this.  I would say this is a pretty good solution in most cases.  However this doesn't help if want to void the original transaction.

I've had an unconfirmed transaction for over two weeks. 

I noticed there was a period where it was dropped from blockchain.info but still showed unconfirmed in my electrum wallet.  Then a couple of days later it seemed to have been rebroadcast somehow.

Some questions

- Does electrum rebroadcast everytime I open my wallet?
- Can I do a double spend to a new output with a higher fee.  (I've made other arrangements for payment since the original payment is still stuck).  Anyone have a good tutorial how to do this?
- viaBTC is not really a solution in my case.  I just want the original transaction to be dropped.

I have the exact same problem.  It gets dropped and then it gets rebroadcast somewhere in the network.  It's been stuck for over two weeks now.

I think at some point I will try to double spend like you did.  When it says "create new wallet", is that the same instance of electrum on the same computer?

Could someone look at this transaction and tell me what is going on?  I sent it over a week ago (may 16th) and it has not been confirmed. I understand the fee might have been too low given all the recent btc transactions.  I would have thought it would drop out of the mempool and returned to my wallet.

Looking on blockchain a few days ago it was no longer found but still found on blocktrail.  Now it is back on blockchain, which seems to have been rebroadcast somewhere

Tx id: 9ce1baa28ae0911503b6b87a46ccc334c4d7868a0edfc4dc464bf3f0e331a5e3
wallet: electrum

1) Does electrum rebroadcast automatically?  If I keep electrum closed does that stop any rebroadcasts?

2) Does sending a new transaction with electrum rebroadcast all the unconfirmed transactions?  That would explain why this reappeared on blockchain.

3) I would rather not increase the fee since I emptied my wallet and would now need to load it again to try and increase the fee. 

4) viabtc seems to be swamped since I have had no success getting this site to accept the above transaction.  Getting try again later message