The campaign for Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola actively participated in an effort to peel votes away from incumbent Republican Sen.Dan Sullivan by recruiting namesake and spoiler candidates, according to an investigation The New York Times published Wednesday.The covert operation — internally dubbed the "ballot composition project" — allegedly involved aides from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), top campaign advisors, party lawyers and an operative who traveled across the state under assumed names.The effort began in the summer of 2025, when a Peltola staffer was directed to comb through state voter rolls to compile a list of Alaskans named Dan Sullivan, according to the report. The plan worked earlier this year when Dan J.
Sullivan, a retired teacher and left-leaning voter from Petersburg, switched his voter registration to Republican shortly before filing his candidacy in the Senate race.TRUMP SAYS 'WE ARE LOOKING INTO' OTHER DAN SULLIVAN ON ALASKA BALLOT, WARNS ABOUT GOVERNOR'S RACESen.Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, and former Rep.
Mary Peltola, D-Alaska (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) (Nathaniel Wilder/Bloomberg via Getty Images)PERSONAL ATTACKS FLY AS SULLIVAN, PELTOLA SPAR OVER CORRUPTION, CHARACTER AND CONTROVERSYElisa Rios, Peltola’s former campaign manager who was fired in August, told the Times that while Peltola was not directly involved in orchestrating the project, she was "definitely aware.""Alaskan voters need to know," Rios said."There was a lot of speculation, and voters should get the full picture when making their decisions."Rios later attempted to retract her comments prior to publication, but the newspaper noted that her initial interviews were corroborated by text messages, internal documents and 11 other sources.Central to the plan was Democratic operative Jerid Kurtz, who allegedly traveled through Alaska using aliases such as "Zane," the report states.Former Rep.
Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, is part of one ...