Three high-profile candidates, led by former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, have qualified for election in the Alaska Chamber of Commerce, particularly race, projects NBC News.

Republican Nick Begic, grandson of former Alaska Republican Nick Begic, and bipartisan surgeon Al Gross are also running in the general election, according to NBC News.

In August, Alaskan voters will nominate four candidates to determine who will secure seats in the House of Representatives for the final months of Rep. Don Young. Young held the post for decades and died in March.

This is the first time the state has used open primary and tiered voting, a system introduced after the 2020 ballot. Here is how the new voting system works: Alaskans vote for individual candidates in an open, nonpartisan primaries process. The top four winners go to the general election, where voters support four candidates. Each candidate who gets more than 50 percent of the vote wins the race. If neither achieves a majority, the candidate with the lowest number of votes in the first election is eliminated, and the ballots awarded for the eliminated candidate are re-elected for the second election of the electorate. The process of elimination and recovery continues until only two candidates remain. Then, the candidate with the most votes wins.