Okay, and?

The voting laws in Alaska are already upheld by the Alaskan supreme court, and Republicans love to play the "well, this isn't technically against the rules" when they pull stunts, so I'm all outta fucks.

As a man with two daughters, I'll never forget Republican hypocrisy about timing to nominate judges WRT Merrick Garland and Amy Coney Barrett.

The alt-right playbook says rules only matter when they can be used against your opponents.

“Alaskan voters need to know,” Elisa Rios, whom Peltola fired in August, told the Times, which added that she later tried to retract her interview with the outlet.

Well, I'm convinced.

Omg they do this all the fucking time. Rules for DNC, none for GOP.

Do these fucks not remember when Florida pulled this stunt in 2020? I think that ghost candidates are shady regardless of who's pulling the steings, but at least AK has ranked choice voting to really mitigate the possibility of voters making the mistake of voting for the candidate they don't actually prefer. Further, they updated the ballot to really clarify which Dan Sullivan is the incumbent and which is not.

I've been known to complain about ranked voting advocates who promote IRV for features it doesn't have, but this form of strategic nomination is one thing IRV does defend against. I'd consider this a dirty trick if they did it here, but all Alaskans have to do is rank the Dans Sullivan consecutively on their ballots (in either order). Then Dan Sullivan can't be eliminated until he gets re-eliminated after getting votes transferred from the first eliminated Dan Sullivan.

that’s so fucking dumb