The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Oct. 29 filed a revised lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska’s U.S. Senate results if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses narrowly and votes for a second candidate named Daniel J. Sullivan would have reversed the outcome.
The amended legal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Alaska comes as residents of that state are already voting early in the Nov. 3 midterm congressional elections. Republicans currently hold 53 seats in the Senate; Democrats and independents who caucus with them hold 47 seats.
The revised filing incorporates details from an Oct. 28 report in The New York Times. That report stated that aides to Democratic candidate Mary Peltola worked with Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) staff and others on what was internally called a “Ballot Composition Project” to recruit candidates who could draw votes away from the incumbent. The newspaper said the operation helped bring Daniel J. Sullivan, a retired teacher from Petersburg, Alaska, into the race….