Alaska's Republican-run government urges a judge to throw out Trump's 'meritless' lawsuit over the 'Decoy Dan' Senate ballots
Sen. Dan Sullivan (left) and Dan Sullivan, the Senate candidate whose donors the FBI has contacted to ask whether they were misled by his campaign.
Alaska's attorney general office told federal judge Sharon L. Gleason on Saturday that the Department of Justice's demand to physically separate ballots cast for retired teacher Dan J. Sullivan was "both disturbing and impossible" without violating voter privacy. The state's Republican-run government called Trump's intervention "meritless" and urged Gleason to dismiss the suit without even holding a hearing. Alaska argues ballot design already distinguished the two Sullivans clearly, listing the incumbent as a Republican and an incumbent.
FBI agents visited donors of 'Decoy Dan' Sullivan in at least two remote Alaskan communities and Massachusetts, asking whether they felt 'misled.'
Democratic candidate Mary Peltola has denied any knowledge of the alleged recruiting scheme, saying 'I knew nothing about any other candidate on the ballot except for me and the incumbent.'
Trump, speaking at his Mar-a-Lago Halloween party on Saturday, called the case 'voter fraud at the highest level' and claimed Sullivan had 'gone into hiding.'
