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The Law and Democrats Allegedly Recruiting Second "Dan Sullivan" to Run in Alaska Senate Race

Eugene Volokh | 10.29.2026 12:15 PM

Election law expert and UCLA Prof. Rick Hasen (Election Law Blog) has a post about this; an excerpt:

Today's New York Times story, if true, strikes me as a political bombshell: despite public denials of a connection, people associated with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in Alaska Mary Peltola and Democratic Party officials recruited the second "Dan Sullivan" to run against the incumbent Republican U.S. Senator from Alaska, Dan S. Sullivan. The hope would be to siphon votes away from Sullivan. (As a political play, I'm skeptical that this would work, given Alaska's ranked choice voting approach would allow ranking both Dan Sullivans as 1 and 2, thereby not helping........

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