Alaska Vote Count Could Take WEEKS, Decide Senate

Alaska's 600,000 voters are spread across roughly 586,000 square miles, a longer trip for a ballot than most of my cattle ever made to market. The NY Post says the Senate race between Sullivan and Peltola could take days or weeks to count. Rural votes often come in by plane, ballots postmarked by Election Day have ten days to arrive, and ranked-choice sorting slows things further. The Justice Department sued this month over a retired teacher named Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., asking to invalidate the result if Sullivan loses. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, but a second Sullivan on one ballot is more confusion than any state needs. Unnamed reports say Peltola's campaign engineered the scheme, and I've known enough unnamed sources to want names.