Judge fast-tracks Alaska election legal fight as officials defend ballots – Newsweek
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Trump DOJ sues to block Alaska US Senate results if Republican loses in midterm elections
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Report: Left-Wing Donors Bankroll ‘Decoy Dan’ Sullivan in Alaska Senate Race– legalinsurrection.com
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The New York Post found that progressive donors have primarily funded the super PAC supporting Republican “Decoy Dan” Sullivan in Alaska’s Senate race.
Sullivan is known as “Decoy Dan” because he filed to run using the same name and party affiliation as incumbent Republican Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan.
The news fuels theories that Democrat operatives put Sullivan on the Alaska ballot to confuse voters, especially as the race between Sen. Sullivan and former Democrat Rep. Mary Peltola has grown close.
The super PAC is called Right for Alaska:
New financial disclosures support that theory. Right for Alaska, a super PAC that has spent close to $1.15 million to support “Decoy Dan,” took in approximately $990,000 from the left-wing Sixteen Thirty Fund, according to Federal Election Commission data.
Right For Alaska, whose mailing address is located in the Twin Cities suburb of Hudson, Wis., also got $1.8 million from the Liberty Force Action Fund, a dark money 501(c)(4) that doesn’t have to disclose its donors.
Both Right for Alaska and the Liberty Force Action Fund list as their treasurer a man named Thomas Datwyler — previously linked to lying former Long Island Rep. George Santos (R-NY).
Datwyler did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Watchdog Files Criminal Referral Over Election Law Violations in Pivotal Senate Race– slaynews.com
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A watchdog group has submitted a 114-page criminal referral asking federal prosecutors to investigate whether organizations behind millions of dollars in Alaska Senate advertising violated election law in connection with a candidate who shares Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan’s (R-AK) name.
The American Accountability Foundation filed the referral Wednesday with the U.S. Attorney for the District of Alaska, seeking scrutiny of possible coordinated expenditures and contributions made in another person’s name.
The filing centers on Dan J. Sullivan, whose candidacy Republican officials have warned could confuse voters and siphon support from incumbent Senator Daniel S. Sullivan.
Democrat Mary Peltola is also competing in the race.
The referral adds to an existing federal inquiry into whether the similarly named candidate entered the contest to confuse voters.
Same-Name Candidacy Already Under Investigation
Alaska uses a nonpartisan primary in which the top four candidates advance to a ranked-choice general election.
State election officials initially removed Dan J. Sullivan from the ballot after determining that his filing was not made in good faith.
A state judge later reversed that decision.
Key Alaska Senate Race Comes Down to One Issue: Fish– www.westernjournal.com
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Former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola has made fishing the centerpiece of her campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in Alaska.
Peltola, who is Yup’ik and grew up fishing on the Kuskokwim River, has revived her longtime “Fish, Family, Freedom” slogan from her House campaigns and is calling for a ban on factory trawling.
“I’m the only candidate on this stage who’s an Alaskan fisherman. Fish is in my blood, earned over generations on the water,” Peltola said at a Sept. 12 fisheries debate hosted by the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce, the Alaska Beacon reported.
The Peltola and Sullivan campaigns and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.
The fight centers on bycatch — the salmon, halibut and crab swept up in the nets of large trawlers harvesting pollock and other groundfish in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska — which many Alaskans blame, at least in part, for weak salmon runs and declining halibut and crab stocks, the outlet reported.
The race could help decide which party controls the Senate, Gunnar Knapp, a retired University of Alaska Anchorage economist, told the Beacon.
Brett Watson, an economist at the University of Alaska Anchorage, told the outlet he could not recall fishing issues playing “such a central role in a statewide or federal campaign.”
The Senate Race In Alaska Is What A Rigged Election Looks Like– thefederalist.com
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If you want to know what a “rigged” election looks like, look no further than the U.S. Senate primary race still underway in Alaska. As of this writing, the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan trails Mary Peltola, a Democrat and former member of the House, by about 5 points.
Some 30,000 votes are still uncounted, but it won’t change the fundamentals going into the November general election thanks to Alaska’s insane and fraudulent ranked-choice voting regime. In Alaska, the primary purpose of ranked-choice voting (or RCV) is to prevent conservative Republicans from winning statewide office and to keep Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Washington.
Full disclosure: I grew up in Alaska and live there now, and while I’m immensely proud to be from this great state and great land in the majestic northern marches of America, our voting system here is an embarrassment.
Ranked-choice voting, or RCV, replaced our party primary system with an open or “jungle primary” in which any resident of the state can sign up as a candidate and appear on the ballot. But we have RCV, which means after the primary the top four candidates advance to the general election, in which voters are supposed to rank their preferred candidates instead of simply choosing one.
That means you could potentially have two Republicans and one Democrat on the general election ballot, which all but guarantees the Democrat will win. And of course that’s exactly how Mary Peltola was elected in 2022. She ran in a special election to replace the late Rep. Don Young, a Republican who had held Alaska’s sole U.S. House seat for 49 years. The Republican vote split between Sarah Palin and Nick Begich (now a member of the House), and Peltola eked out a victory in the “second round” of vote-counting.
The Senate Race In Alaska Is What A Rigged Election Looks Like– thefederalist.com
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EXCERPT:
If you want to know what a “rigged” election looks like, look no further than the U.S. Senate primary race still underway in Alaska. As of this writing, the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan trails Mary Peltola, a Democrat and former member of the House, by about 5 points.
Some 30,000 votes are still uncounted, but it won’t change the fundamentals going into the November general election thanks to Alaska’s insane and fraudulent ranked-choice voting regime. In Alaska, the primary purpose of ranked-choice voting (or RCV) is to prevent conservative Republicans from winning statewide office and to keep Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Washington.
Full disclosure: I grew up in Alaska and live there now, and while I’m immensely proud to be from this great state and great land in the majestic northern marches of America, our voting system here is an embarrassment.
Ranked-choice voting, or RCV, replaced our party primary system with an open or “jungle primary” in which any resident of the state can sign up as a candidate and appear on the ballot. But we have RCV, which means after the primary the top four candidates advance to the general election, in which voters are supposed to rank their preferred candidates instead of simply choosing one.
That means you could potentially have two Republicans and one Democrat on the general election ballot, which all but guarantees the Democrat will win. And of course that’s exactly how Mary Peltola was elected in 2022. She ran in a special election to replace the late Rep. Don Young, a Republican who had held Alaska’s sole U.S. House seat for 49 years. The Republican vote split between Sarah Palin and Nick Begich (now a member of the House), and Peltola eked out a victory in the “second round” of vote-counting.