Justice Department sues to block Alaska Senate race results if Republican loses
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[0:00] back to Alaska. The outcome of the
[0:02] Senate race there could decide majority
[0:06] control of the Senate. Polls, we should
[0:08] note, will not close there until
[0:10] midnight Eastern and in some parts of
[0:13] the state, not until 1:00 a.m. Eastern.
[0:15] And because of the state's rank choice
[0:17] voting system, results will be slow in
[0:19] coming because of the sorting and
[0:21] reallocating that system requires. But
[0:24] the nation, according to the Trump
[0:27] Justice Department, need not wait for
[0:28] those results. Its lawsuit already seeks
[0:32] to block certification if Republican
[0:35] incumbent Dan Sullivan loses. The
[0:38] purported cause for this preemptive
[0:40] descertification,
[0:42] the fact that there is another candidate
[0:44] in that Senate race on the ballot named
[0:46] Dan Sullivan. His full name Daniel J.
[0:50] Sullivan. He's a resident of a fishing
[0:51] village called Petersburg. That
[0:54] candidate, Daniel J. Sullivan, is not
[0:57] competitive. The Senate race is between
[0:59] Senator Sullivan and former
[1:01] Congresswoman Mary Pelah. Now, back i