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DOJ set to appeal ruling in Alaska Senate race dispute over ‘Decoy Dan’

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A federal judge rejected the DOJ's lawsuit to delay Alaska Senate election certification over the Dan Sullivan candidate controversy.

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What the coverage shows

The coverage converges on the Justice Department’s challenge to the Alaska Senate ballot dispute and on the idea that the case turns on whether two Dan Sullivans could confuse voters. NBC News is the only outlet to note the filing’s reference to “voter confusion” and its lack of detail on how segregating ballots would prove confusion, while the AP centers voter pushback against that claim. BBC and Fox frame the dispute through the allegations around the second Dan Sullivan, with Fox alone adding the appeal angle and a separate ex-FEC chair’s Trump-precedent argument.

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