Alaska’s two ‘Dan Sullivans’: How common is ballot stacking, does it work?

The Alaska Senate ballot in the next week’s midterm elections in the United States features two candidates with the name Dan Sullivan – one the incumbent Republican senator and another a retired teacher with no prior political experience. Last week, The …

DOJ calls Alaska Senate allegations "troubling," asks to segregate ballots

Anchorage, Alaska — The Justice Department's top prosecutor in Alaska said new reporting on the origins of an independent candidate's Senate campaign "has resulted in a significant surge of law enforcement assets" to the state, as federal …

Alaska voters react to Mary Peltola's campaign's alleged role in Dan Sullivan controversy

FBI visits Dan J. Sullivan donor in candidate's home town as Alaska Senate probe widens

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Federal investigators have begun contacting people who gave money to Dan J. Sullivan, the Alaska U …

Feds confirm criminal probe into 2nd Dan Sullivan’s Alaska Senate run as DOJ seeks to isolate ballots

It was, for a while, considered one of those colorful quirks that crop up in the course of an election: the fact that not one but two candidates named Dan Sullivan will appear on the Nov. 3 ballot for U.S. senator from Alaska.  One Dan Sullivan — Dan S. …

Why the Alaska Senate race could be so slow — and controversial — to decide

By Jeremy Herb, Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — After Election Day, all eyes in the political world could turn to Alaska. Alaska has already been at the center of a roiling political controversy this week over how the second Dan Sullivan ended up on the state’s …

Capehart Thinks Trump Is 'Why We're Even Talking About Alaska'

MS NOW host and Friday PBS News Hour contributor Jonathan Capehart spun so hard on behalf of Democrats on Friday it is amazing he didn’t fall out of his chair. According to Capehart, the only reason the country is talking about the Alaska Senate race is …

Trump prosecutions under Biden set precedent for DOJ’s Alaska ‘Decoy Dan’ probe, ex-FEC chair says

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy discusses a federal investigation into an alleged ballot-stacking scheme involving Mary Peltola's campaign. The Department of Justice launched a probe into the recruitment of a decoy candidate named Dan Sullivan. Dunleavy …

Another little-known candidate in the Alaska Senate race points toward secretive effort to hurt Republicans

(CNN) — As a Justice Department investigation scrutinizes whether Democrats recruited a Senate candidate to confuse Alaska voters, a big-money effort propping up a different fringe name on the ballot could also hurt Republicans in that race – and in …

FBI visits Dan J. Sullivan donor in Petersburg as Alaska Senate race inquiry widens

FILE - This combination photo shows Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, left, in Palmer, Alaska, Aug. 17, 2026, and a candidate in Alaska's Senate race, Dan Sullivan, right, in Petersburg, Alaska, July 3, 2026. (AP Photos/Mark Thiessen/Becky Bohrer, …