“With these new revelations in the New York Times article, we’re more than compelled to follow up on the investigation, and we are starting that diligently here today.” - Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy, on his order that the Department of Public Safety investigate whether Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola, her campaign or national Democratic groups violated state law by recruiting an independent candidate to run in this year’s election.
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By James Brooks
In the last days before Election Day, the Alaska Democratic Party is making a request: Don’t vote for the Democratic candidate in the U.S. House race.
Eric Hafner, the lone Democrat in the four-candidate House election, is in federal prison for threatening federal officials and isn’t expected to be released until 2036.
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By Corinne Smith
The U.S. Justice Department announced this week that it plans to deploy 1,000 federal monitors across all 50 states. That includes Alaska polling places but there are few details on where monitoring will take place.
A DOJ spokesperson told States Newsroom this week that the full list of monitored locations won’t be disclosed until Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 3.
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Republican officials order investigations of Peltola and other Democrats after New York Times report
By James Brooks
Alaska’s governor said late Wednesday that he is ordering the Alaska Department of Public Safety to investigate whether Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola, her campaign or national Democratic groups violated state law by recruiting independent candidate Dan J. Sullivan to run in this year’s election.
Sullivan’s recruitment was first reported Wednesday by the New York Times, which said Democratic campaigners worked through an intermediary to convince Sullivan to run for office and act as a spoiler for Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan’s re-election campaign.
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COMMENTARY
By Bruce Botelho
On Nov. 2 the U.S. Census Bureau will close the public comment period on a proposed Trump Administration regulation to redefine who counts in America. It is his latest effort to erase immigrants from their collective participation in the American experiment.
The proposed changes are several-fold: they would not only remove undocumented immigrants from the census count, but also immigrants who are in the United States legally, but have yet to receive their green cards or citizenship. They would bar questions about race, ethnicity and gender identity. Trump’s proposed actions reflect a fundamental disregard for the role the decennial census plays in our democracy.
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Trump calls for Peltola to be criminally charged, removed from Alaska’s U.S. Senate race | James Brooks and Claire Stremple
Commentary: Outside interests think Alaska’s U.S. Senate race is a cheap date | Larry Persily
Trump cancels weekend Kansas rally 5 days ahead of election | States Newsroom
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