Alaska has a voting system like no other state. Republicans worry it could cost them in November

Alaska Republicans worry the state's unusual voting rules could cost them a Senate seat this fall. Sen. Dan Sullivan is seeking a third term in a race that ranks among roughly a dozen contests nationwide that will decide Senate control, and he faces an electoral setup found nowhere else: Alaska sends the top four finishers from an all-party primary to the general election, and, along with Maine, it uses ranked-choice voting in federal and statewide races. Supporters say the arrangement gives independents more say, reduces party control, and pushes candidates toward broader appeal, according to Fox News.

Sullivan's chief rival is former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola; the two combined for more than 90% of the primary vote. A third name complicates the race: Daniel J. Sullivan, a retired schoolteacher and registered Republican unrelated to the senator, whom the senator's supporters call "Decoy Dan." The GOP-aligned group Americans for Public Trust accused him of working with Democrats to confuse voters, an allegation both he and the Peltola campaign denied. Alaska election officials moved to remove him from the ballot, but a Superior Court judge put him back on it, and the state Supreme Court later upheld that outcome.

Alaska GOP chair Carmela Warfield has repeatedly called the voting system a "MESS" on social media, and veteran strategist Mary Marslender told Fox News Digital the setup is "hurting the Republican Party."

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