Here is a link to incomplete election returns for Alaska. Measure 2, which would have created a top-four system in which ranked choice voting would be used in November (but not in the primary) appears to have lost. With 360 out of 441 precincts reporting, it has 43.2%.
The measure would have made it more difficult for parties to obtain or keep qualified status. Because parties would no longer have nominees for any partisan office except president, the vote test for parties wouldn’t exist any more. Instead the only method for parties to qualify would have been to have registered members equal to 3% of the last vote cast. Only the Alaskan Independence Party meets that standard.
Good. Top 4 is not much better than Top 2.