A federal district judge on Sunday dismissed the Department of Justice’s lawsuit that sought to block certification of the election if a third-party candidate with the same name as the incumbent senator, Dan S. Sullivan, causes voter confusion that leads to a Democratic candidate winning the seat.
In a Sunday order, U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason ruled that the Department of Justice (DOJ) doesn’t have the capacity to bring the lawsuit. Further, she noted the election would be held on Nov. 3 and that ballots are already prepared.
“More fundamentally, the United States provides no workable plan as to how it proposes to segregate ballots cast for Daniel J. Sullivan on Election Day and then conduct a court-ordered unspecified ‘investigation’ of those ballots in a manner that would preserve voter secrecy,” the judge wrote….