The Justice Department lawsuit raises concerns the administration may be looking to meddle in some of this midterm cycle’s races.
With just more than a week until the pivotal US midterm elections, the US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to block certification of the results in Alaska’s hotly contested Senate race.
In a lawsuit filed on Thursday, the Justice Department argued that an independent candidate with the same name as the state’s incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan , who is currently running for re-election, is purposefully running to mislead voters.
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“Given the substantial likelihood that the inclusion of Daniel J Sullivan will confuse or mislead voters looking to cast a vote for Senator Sullivan, and thus distort the will…
