Democratic political consultant Steve Maviglio filed a 2028 ballot initiative to repeal California's top-two primary system, proposing to replace it with partisan primaries for congressional and state offices, according to Ballotpedia News. Said Maviglio in the San Francisco Chronicle: "When casting ballots in this fall's gubernatorial election, however, our state's electorate could ... be forced to choose between two Republican candidates for governor" — a scenario he called possible given 61 candidates running in the June 2 top-two gubernatorial primary, with eight declared Democrats dividing the vote.