An Alaska judge rejected a request from Mary Peltola's Senate campaign for a list of voters whose absentee ballots were thrown out, along with the reasons.
The state argued that the data would violate voter privacy. The judge said the records could in theory be redacted, but producing them now isn't feasible for election staff racing deadlines.
Alaska's Senate race is the only one in the country still not called, with Peltola and Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan as the main contenders. Overseas ballots can arrive until Nov. 18.
Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has pulled further ahead in Alaska's governor race as more ballots are counted. The former Sitka lawmaker has 49.9% of the vote so far, ahead of three Republicans.
Bernadette Wilson is second at 28.8%, and preliminary ranked-choice data suggests she won't be able to move past him. His campaign projects he will win a majority of first-choice votes once everything is counted, which would avoid a ranked-choice tally.
Ballot Measure 2, which sought to repeal the state's open primaries and ranked-choice general elections, looks set to fail with 52.6% against.
Democrat Mary Peltola is up 2,517 votes on Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in Alaska, with the count still underway a week after Election Day.
A second Dan Sullivan drew 3,651 votes, more than that gap, and he rejects claims he coordinated with Peltola's campaign. Gov. Mike Dunleavy says state investigators are checking for possible misconduct, including anything that could look like perjury.
The Justice Department has sued to halt certification of a Peltola win if those votes could have swung the result. Certification is planned for November 25.
Alaska lawmakers in both chambers say they have the numbers to govern despite tens of thousands of uncounted ballots from Tuesday's election. Cathy Giessel, an Anchorage Republican, is set to become Senate president, and independent Calvin Schrage is the incoming House speaker.
The Senate group could shrink to 11 members, the minimum needed, if up to three Republicans in talks to leave join the minority. House leaders expect a bigger majority if Democrats win seats now held by Republicans.
The ranked-choice count is due Nov. 18, and final certification follows on Nov. 25.
Trump posted on Truth Social on Thursday that votes for independent Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. should go to Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan, declaring the Alaska Senate race over.
The independent has been out of view since before Election Day, and Trump suggested he might have been kidnapped by Democratic lawyers. The Justice Department is investigating claims that people tried to recruit him to run against the incumbent, though no one has been charged.
Alaska officials challenged his candidacy, but state courts let him stay on the ballot.
In August 2025, a landslide crashed into Alaska's Tracy Arm fjord and sent water 481 m (1,580 ft) up the opposite mountainside. That's the second-highest tsunami ever recorded. A retreating glacier, heavy rain and thousands of tiny tremors set it up. A tour ship had left about 12 hours earlier.
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