On February 19, the Alaska Supreme Court heard arguments in Meyer v Alaskans for Better Elections, S17629. The issue is whether the initiative for a top-four system violates the state constitutional provision that initiatives must deal with a single subject.

The top-four initiative includes a plan to abolish party nominees. Instead, all candidates for congress and state office would run in the August primary, and then only the top four vote-getters would be on the general election ballot.

The initiative also says that the November ballot (but not the primary) should use ranked choice voting.

Finally, it says that campaign contributions must be reported within 24 hours of the receipt of the contribution.

The state elections office believes the initiative is invalid because campaign finance is a different subject that abolishing party nominees. See this story about the hearing.