When Democrats cannot win on the merits they rewrite the rules. That is the only conclusion left after a New York Times report detailed how operatives tied to Mary Peltola’s Senate campaign spent months hunting for another Alaskan named Dan Sullivan so they could plant him on the ballot and siphon votes from the Republican incumbent.
Governor Mike Dunleavy responded the only way a serious executive should. He ordered the Department of Public Safety to investigate whether the scheme broke Alaska law and whether criminal charges or civil action are warranted.
“Today’s New York Times reporting reveals disturbing new evidence of an organized effort to manipulate Alaska’s elections by recruiting candidates — including one with the same name as an incumbent U.S. Senator — to deliberately confuse voters and misdirect their votes,” Dunleavy wrote on X. “The Alaska Division of Elections investigated these very concerns in June of this year. The new reporting substantially supports the Division’s findings.”
He added that Alaskans “have a fundamental right to vote for the candidate they actually intend to support” and that deliberately tricking voters “strikes at the integrity of our elections.”
The Times account is not subtle. In the summer of 2025 a Peltola staffer received instructions from top campaign aides to scour voter records for every person in the state named Dan Sullivan. The goal was obvious. Alaska’s ranked-choice system advances the top four finishers from the primary regardless of party. Planting a namesake next to Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan would force some voters to choose between two nearly identical names. The plan worked. A retired teacher from the tiny Panhandle village of Petersburg, Dan J. Sullivan, filed and made the general-election ballot.
The reporting goes further. The effort, internally called the “ballot composition project,” involved Peltola’s team, campaign lawyers, and senior aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Veteran operative Jerid Kurtz, described as a specialist in secret ballot maneuvers, made contact with the Petersburg Sullivan.
According to the Times, Kurtz told Peltola aides that the retiree “said he hated Trump, and if it was going to help Mary, he liked Mary.” Text messages show Peltola’s then-chief of staff worrying that Kurtz was being too conspicuous; a DSCC official replied they would “check in.”
Former campaign manager Elisa Rios, who was later fired, told the paper that Peltola herself was “definitely aware” of the operation even if she did not participate directly. Rios later tried to retract those statements. The Times said other evidence still supported the story.
Both the Peltola campaign and the DSCC continue to deny any role. “The Alaskans for Mary campaign has no involvement with either Sullivan campaign and did not recruit any candidates into the race,” the campaign told the Times. That denial now sits next to text messages, a dozen interviews, and documents prepared for a potential lawsuit.
In June the Division of Elections had already removed Dan J. Sullivan from the primary ballot after finding a “preponderance of the evidence” that his name and party affiliation were chosen to confuse voters. The Alaska Supreme Court put him back, ruling that state law does not require candidates to run in good faith. He appears on the November ballot as Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., listed without party affiliation, while the incumbent is clearly marked as the Republican.
President Trump called the scheme “Voter Fraud at the Highest Level” and demanded that Peltola be removed from the ballot and prosecuted.
“The Democrats cheated,” he wrote. “They found a man named Dan Sullivan, put him on the Ballot, then lied to the Court, and said they didn’t know anything about it. That’s perjury.”
Sen. Dan Sullivan, appearing on Hannity, said this is what happens when a candidate “has nothing to run on” and noted that Peltola still has not apologized. “What’s remarkable here is that even today, she has not apologized. Even today, she’s kind of playing as if nothing happened.”
The Justice Department has already sued to delay certification if the namesake’s votes could change the outcome.
Peltola dismissed the entire story as “all stuff to sell newspapers.” That is the classic response when the facts become inconvenient. Ballot-stacking is not new in Alaska, and both parties have used it. The difference is the months of public denial while the evidence of coordination accumulated.
Scripture does not grade on a curve when it comes to deliberate deception. “Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another” (Ephesians 4:25).
Voters are not pawns in a consultant’s game. They are citizens entitled to a clear choice between the candidates who actually want the job.
Dunleavy’s investigation will test whether Alaska’s laws can still reach an organized effort to confuse the electorate. The evidence will decide what comes next. Until then the rest of the country has a clear picture of how far some Democrats will go when the polling does not cooperate.
Starting the Day With a Scripture-Inspired Roast Helps Center Your Thoughts on Eternal Truths Amid Temporal Pressures
The world can seem chaotic, especially right after we wake up. Many believers start their mornings reaching for something familiar — a hot cup of coffee — yet end up settling for mediocre brews that do little more than deliver a caffeine jolt. The daily grind of life, with its endless distractions, news cycles, and responsibilities, can leave even the most faithful feeling spiritually parched alongside their physical fatigue. What if your morning ritual could do more than wake you up? What if it could ground you in truth, nourish your body with exceptional quality, and quietly advance a kingdom purpose at the same time?
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