DOJ Sent Criminal Target Letters to Marc Elias & 19 Other Democrats

A New York Times investigation found that operatives linked to Peltola’s campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee recruited retired teacher Daniel J. Sullivan to confuse voters and split votes from the incumbent senator in Alaska’s ranked-choice Senate race. Peltola denied any knowledge, while the Justice Department ramped up its probe on election day, sending target letters to about 20 Democrats, including lawyer Marc Elias, and issuing subpoenas over possible donor fraud and conspiracy. Sen. Sullivan called it the state’s biggest election cheating scandal.

A target letter is not an indictment. Elias gets the presumption of innocence.

Jeff Clark explains, “Arguing in court that an election was flawed is advocacy. The First Amendment protects it.” However, “recruiting a retired teacher named Daniel J. Sullivan to sit on the ballot next to Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, so voters pick the wrong one is not advocacy. It’s deception aimed at the voters themselves.”

The New York Times also saw it as fraud.

Clark continued: “Advocacy is protected. Fraud on voters is not. And here’s the apex point — Elias didn’t just, it seems, participate in picking the fake Dan Sullivan; he then entered as if he was an uninvolved legal advocate, riding both sides of the sapling. Hypocrisy and deception.”

Maybe Elias became overconfident and went too far this time after his many efforts to overturn elections.

The Attorney General couldn’t confirm names, but he will not let this case go.

People in Alaska were confused, and it could undoubtedly cost the real candidate votes to have a fake candidate with the same name.

 

Mike Davis said this type of crime has serious consequences. “Rigging elections by intentionally confusing and disenfranchising voters has serious criminal consequences. 18 U.S.C. §§ 241 and 242.”

I didn’t think Alaskans were the kind of people who would tolerate this type of thing. Here is at least one Alaskan who switched his vote from Mary Peltola.

Peltola lied and said she had nothing to do with it, but she knew.

Alaska voter says he switched his vote from Democrat Mary Peltola to Republican Dan Sullivan after finding out how Democrats rigged the election by finding a Decoy Dan.

“I switched.”

Now let’s just hope they voted for the right Dan Sullivan. https://t.co/K0ajiay2dq

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 3, 2026

Here is one Alaskan who is afraid he voted for the fake candidate.

A look of utter PANIC overtakes a Republican voter in Anchorage, Alaska, as he realizes that he may have voted for the wrong Dan Sullivan.

Democrats and their media allies insist there is no confusion among voters.

That’s just not true.

Watch this man’s facial expressions closely as it sets in that he may have cast his ballot for the spoiler candidate.

ALASKA VOTER: “I don’t remember seeing the other Dan Sullivan.”

“I totally forgot to look if there was two Dan Sullivans.”

NEWSNATION: “The two were together on the ballot.”

That’s when it starts to sink in.

ALASKA VOTER: “Yeah….”

NEWSNATION: “You didn’t notice that?”

ALASKA VOTER: “I just…I might be just having a brain freeze. But I don’t remember the second Dan Sullivan.”

How many others may have voted for the spoiler?

— Overton (@overton_news) November 2, 2026

 

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