Top-four primary

[1][2] The Final-Four Voting system was first proposed by businessmen Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter in a 2017 report entitled "Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America".

The general election ballot allows candidates to be ranked, using Instant-runoff voting elimination to identify a majority winner.

Nine candidates were invited to a first panel discussion organized as an industry forum: 5 Republicans, 2 Democrats and 2 independents, based on various criteria.

[12][13] In the first round of the general election, Republican votes were split between first-rank preferences for Palin and Begich, creating a spoiler effect known as a center squeeze.

Moderate Lisa Murkowski was reelected after not having to win a Republican primary that she narrowly lost twelve years earlier.

After a petition by Nevada Voters First for a Top-Five Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative received the minimum number of signatures, the proposal appeared on the ballot in November 2022.

[28] The initiative proposed to amend the Nevada Constitution to establish open top-five primaries and instant-runoff voting for general elections.

Politico stated it would be easier for the Democratic incumbent, Mary Peltola to win "if three Republicans are splitting the GOP vote".

Alaska Assistant Attorney General Margaret Paton-Walsh argued in response that political parties could still influence the election by endorsing and providing support for candidates.

[41] The uniting feature of all variations is to reduce the field of candidates in a primary round, and confirming a majority winner in the general election.

An argument in favor of using IRV sequential-elimination in the primary is that more voters help pick the top-four, and marginally more will be happy with supporting at least one in the general election.

[clarification needed] All of these variations, including a traditional nonpartisan blanket primary, allow a majority to confirm the winner.