Nearly 9,000 names on the Justice Department's California 'noncitizen' voter list are not on state rolls, UCLA analysts find

Alaska's Republican-run state attorney general's office filed a scathing brief on Saturday urging US District Court Judge Sharon L. Gleason to dismiss the Trump administration's lawsuit as "meritless," warning that separating ballots cast for decoy candidate Daniel J. Sullivan would violate voter privacy and was simply impossible. The DOJ had demanded the court isolate those ballots to determine whether voters were fooled into wasting votes on the retired Petersburg schoolteacher, who shares a name with Republican incumbent Senator Dan S. Sullivan. The state's filing called the demand "both disturbing and impossible," while Judge Gleason set Saturday as the deadline for arguments on whether to dismiss the case without a hearing.

FBI agents have travelled to Petersburg — reachable only by air or water — visiting a boat dealership and contacting donors to Daniel J. Sullivan as the criminal probe widens.

Democrat Mary Peltola denied all involvement at a Friday rally, saying she was "deeply offended," but stayed silent on the federal criminal investigation and dozens of DOJ subpoenas.

Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy warned the scandal exposed a "system flaw hiding in plain sight," blaming ranked-choice voting for making the alleged decoy scheme possible.