Below is my column on the return of Marc Elias in another campaign controversy with the Alaskan decoy scandal. The Elias Law Group and other lawyers were tied to the effort to confuse Alaskan voters by The New York Times in its recent investigative report. These lawyers presumably have a growing conflict of interest as dozens of subpoenas shower down on Alaska. What is clear is that this scandal will not end on Tuesday and, if the results are close in favor of Democrat Mary Peltola, there could be a major fight over her taking her seat in the Senate.
Here is the column:
Marc Elias is back. The notorious Democratic lawyer who played a critical role in the 2016 Russia hoax is again in the news. His law firm has been identified by the New York Times as part of the expanding scandal involving Democratic effort to confuse voters in Alaska with a decoy candidate named Daniel J. Sullivan.
For those familiar with Elias’s checkered history, this is a case of rounding up the usual suspects.
The scandal involving Democratic candidate Mary Peltola has quickly snowballed this week. A New York Times blockbuster investigative report quotes former staff who claim she knew of a cynical effort by her own campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to confuse voters by recruiting and fielding a decoy “Dan Sullivan” candidate in the race against incumbent Sen. Daniel S. Sullivan (R-Alaska). State and federal investigations are now unfolding, with dozens of federal subpoenas raining down on Alaska.
The effort to get voters to cast mistaken ballots is grossly unethical and, even in these rage-filled times, a uniquely disgraceful scheme. Peltola and the Democratic Party had long denied any involvement in the other Sullivan’s candidacy. So when the Times produced evidence that she allegedly knew, and that Democratic staffers and lawyers had been deeply involved from the beginning, many of us were surprised — that is, until the name “Marc Elias” emerged. Then it made more sense.
The Elias Law Group was already in the news this election cycle for threatening reporters with defamation lawsuits if they kept asking questions about the health of former Gov. Roy Cooper, the Democratic nominee for Senate in North Carolina. Earlier, Elias caused a stir during an unsuccessful Democratic gerrymandering effort, raising the idea that Democratic leaders could abolish the entire Virginia government after courts blocked their attempted radical redistricting plan.
The fact that figures such as Peltola and Cooper wanted to be associated with any law firm headed by Elias is itself an indictment of their judgment and standards.
Despite his losses in cases such as National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, Elias is still a favorite of many on the left thanks to his aggression and partisan fervor. The controversies that make him notorious to many make him popular with others.
Elias was the general counsel to the Clinton presidential campaign when it secretly funded the infamous Steele Dossier and pushed the false Alfa Bank conspiracy theory. (His fellow Perkins Coie partner, Michael Sussmann, was later indicted but acquitted for making a false statement to the FBI.)
Clinton campaign officials lied to reporters during the 2016 campaign, denying any involvement in the Steele Dossier. Journalists discovered the truth after the election — that the Clinton campaign had hidden payments for the dossier as “legal fees” among the $5.6 million paid to Perkins Coie. New York Times reporter Ken Vogel said that when he tried to report the story, Elias “pushed back vigorously, saying ‘You (or your sources) are wrong.’”
Times reporter Maggie Haberman later observed that “Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year.” The Federal Election Commission ultimately sanctioned the Clinton campaign for the subterfuge.
While raising money as the self-proclaimed defenders of democracy, Elias’s group has been involved in gerrymandering and efforts criticized as seeking to invalidate Republican votes, including unsuccessful efforts to challenge Democratic electoral losses.
In Maryland, Elias’s team supported another abusive gerrymandering scheme that a court found not only violated Maryland law but the state constitution’s equal protection, free speech and free elections clauses. The court found that the proposed map “subverts the will of those governed.”
One media site accused Elias and his group of “making millions off gerrymandering efforts” while publicly denouncing Republican gerrymandering.
In 2024, Elias’s legal team was also accused of pushing “to bar third-party presidential candidates — including Cornel West — from swing state ballots where they might siphon votes” from Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
Likewise, the New York Times reported that the Elias firm’s work “on behalf of a Soros-funded PAC in Texas … was opposed by a left-leaning election watchdog as undermining laws intended to limit the influence of major donors.”
His group’s work for New York’s redistricting effort was ridiculed as not only ignoring the express will of the voters and also effectively negating Republicans’ votes.
In 2024, the Chief Judge of the Western District of Wisconsin criticized the Elias Law Group for one of its challenges. Judge James Peterson (an Obama appointee) said that the argument “simply does not make any sense.”
Now, Elias’s group is linked to the decoy scandal in Alaska, which allegedly aimed to make voters cast mistaken ballots. What distinguishes lawyers involved in this type of voter disruption is less their talent as their willingness. There are simply some things that most lawyers will not do.
There is also a difference in how lawyers are treated in such controversies. It often seems that election controversies involving Republican lawyers are more likely to end with bar charges and disbarments. Take John Eastman, the former Trump lawyer disbarred in California after a state bar panel found that he had pushed unfounded legal theories and conspired to obstruct the electoral vote count on Jan. 6, 2021.
Although I publicly disagreed with Eastman’s theories, I opposed the effort to disbar him as setting a dangerous precedent for lawyers seeking to advance novel or unpopular theories of recovery or liability. After all, lawyers on the left routinely advance dubious theories, including some that are more ideologically than legally driven. Such controversies rarely rise to the level of disbarment, especially when more appropriate sanctions are available, ranging from reprimands to fines.
Eastman is currently asking the Supreme Court to overturn his disbarment. It is unlikely that Elias Law Group or Peltola’s lawyers will face similar disbarment efforts — nor should they, in my view, unless they were involved in criminal conduct. But the disparate treatment afforded to counsel in this country by party remains a growing concern. What draws a shower of bar complaints for Republican lawyers brings a windfall of clients for Democratic lawyers.
The New York Times has produced sources alleging that lawyers for Peltola’s campaign were involved in this effort, even though they previously told a federal court that they “lack knowledge or information” and “deny any allegation about those purposes.” Such filings and statements could raise ethical or even criminal questions in investigations at both the state and federal levels.
Meanwhile, though, tens of thousands of voters in Alaska have already cast ballots that included the decoy Sullivan candidate. This could result in a nasty fight in Congress if Peltola prevails in the vote count. And when it happens, that is where we will find Marc Elias in his element.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
Prediction: dems take the House. The dems take the Senate or it splits 50/50. In the latter, Vance will cast the tie vote after impeachment. Prediction: dems take the Senate.
Enjoy the lovely autumn one and all. Each day is precious imo.
Civics lesson for the day. There is no such thing as a tie vote after impeachment that the Veep can break. Conviction by the Senate after impeachment by the House requires a 2/3 vote.
Attaining power unethically is but a means to the end of having and exercising power that will inevitably become arbitrary. What has become of the Democratic Party suggests strongly it is one that will gladly exercise absolute power at worst or misuse their discretionary powers at best. In either event the Constitution is rendered inactive and the Republic nonexistent.
“Although I publicly disagreed with Eastman’s theories, I opposed the effort to disbar him as setting a dangerous precedent for lawyers seeking to advance novel or unpopular theories of recovery or liability.”
Eastman was not disbarred because of his “novel” legal theories or because they were unpopular. He was disbarred because he was presenting false claims in court. The State Bar Court found that Eastman repeatedly made false, misleading, and factually unsupported claims about widespread voter fraud in public statements and court filings without conducting any meaningful investigation or verification.
Dear Mr. Turley, Mr. Elias is the “scummiest” of all scum bags. He was involved with Mrs. Clinton and the phony Russia scandal, and his fingerprints are all over this one too. His ego is so terribly huge, that he is of the belief that he is able to control all of our election processes. I am thankful this was found out before election day.
“A New York Times blockbuster investigative report…” NYT accidently – make that begrudgingly – doing real journalism months after a story breaks in May is now considered “blockbuster”? Who knew?
Democrats have an alibi. They were driven crazy by mosquitos.
Alaska has about 35 mosquito species, and peak mosquito season typically runs from late May through July, with the worst swarms occurring in the Interior, tundra regions, and areas north of the Yukon River.
So, Professor, what’s the takeaway? That lawyers are scum? That lawyers lie and cheat and manipulate, using the law as a weapon and never risking accountability? Tell us! Look at the litany of egregious things that this man has done! Yet he is still actively subverting our system, our laws and the very principles that underpin everything we hold dear. Where is the ABA? Where are the judges? Where is the honor of the profession. I’m beginning to think that Shakespeare may have been right.
Unless and until some miracle occurs that drastically enhances the cognitive abilities of US voters, this kind of nefarious deception will only continue. In fact, it will almost certainly worsen, as each side escalates these kinds of practices in response to resulting wins by their opponents. The only solution requires massive reform of the public education system (or its dissolution) and a subsequent multi-decade wait for the resulting unpropagandized students to reach the age of majority. That almost certainly ain’t gonna happen. If you are a boomer like me, we, and our parents before us, and even our grandparents, are/were guilty of blindly ignoring what was openly going on in public education for a very long period of time, while we were pursuing our own successes. To some extent, I’m convinced that phenomenon was deliberately engineered by hidden interests opposed to our Liberty and general prosperity, but, no matter: we did clearly have opportunities to forestall the current situation, and we blew it. There may be a dim and distant light at the end of this particular tunnel, but if so, there is a huge, dangerous swamp replete with ferocious denizens that will need to be navigated before there is any chance of reaching it.
speaking of dim and distant what kinda moron votes for the wrong sullivan, right?
Worthy of old soap opera coverage on As the World Turns, we have this lone story from The Alaska Story about Peltola’s former campaign manager Elisa Rios attempting to recant her story printed in the NYT and why she might have wanted to: https://thealaskastory.com/hush-money-why-did-peltolas-former-campaign-manager-try-to-retract-her-new-york-time-story/
(I looked up the credentials for The Alaska Story; it appears to be a worthy and reputable publication.)
How this is related to today’s post: it appears the circle of usual suspects is widening, or at least is becoming more convoluted…..
Couldn’t this be about withholding severance payments because she violated a nondisparagement provision in the severance agreement?
Of course, Daniel, that is pretty standard fare. I take note of Alaska Public Media’s interview with NYT’s Kellen Browning, with a vague reference to the silence surrounding the Rios departure: https://alaskapublic.org/news/politics/elections/2026-10-29/how-the-new-york-times-broke-the-story-on-secret-candidate-recruiting-in-alaskas-senate-race
About two-thirds down, see paragraph starting with “I did want to ask you, you mentioned Elisa Rios,…”
Lin,
It is rather interesting how Elisa Rios changed her mind and wanted to retract all the information, evidence, her statements. I have to wonder if that is when Elias got involved?
Also, be interesting to see if investigations find money transfers to both Rios and the decoy Dan.
Be funny if the Peltola campaign listed them as “legal fees.”
It mentions right in the publication linked: “The Alaska Story previously received information alleging that Rios faced a threatened action from Peltola’s campaign to withhold her final compensation if she didn’t keep quiet.”
Turley still in this? This is no “scandal”. It’s a distraction at best. What is relevant is the vote is tomorrow and this will very likely be moot the day after tomorrow or by the end of the week.
This is nothing but the same tactic Republicans used in 2024. Trump’s DOJ will not go beyond ‘investigating’ things they can’t prove. Voter fraud? LOL! Nope. Ironically real voter fraud was committed by Republican Sean O’Keefe, of former project veritas fame. He got caught committing felony voter fraud. Sullivan applied for candidacy legally and the Alaska Supreme Court agreed he did nothing wrong.
Heck, looks like Texas Ken Paxton is not going to win based on his poor performance and even poorer views among his own party. I suspect Republicans will lose the Senate and perhaps the House as well. I mean really, what did the Republicans run on besides scare mongering about socialism and communism?
X still appearing here this morning? It’s a distraction at best.
NO C
This is not moot.
Numerous legal analysts -= including Turley and Derschowitz have pointed out this is a Crime.
NYT provided sufficient evidence to prove a crime and a criminal conspiracy to commit that crime involving people from Petola through the DSCC and Minority leader Schumer.
Absent later finding that the NYT evidence is itself fraudulent – AI generated or in some other way false, Many people are at serious risk of criminal prosecution and conviction.
Daniel J. Sulivan who has been in hiding for weeks appears to have disappeared – he is in hiding and may have fled the country.
That is what Criminals do.
Additional evidence will with near certainty and additional conspirators be unearthed by the evidence gathered by subpeonas that have been issued and the ongoing investigations.
No this is not “the same tactic” – please cite any instance ever where this has been done before.
This is NOT an effort to crowd the ballot to give voters alternate choices. This is a deliberate effort to deceive voters – that is called FRAUD.
The evidence so far is that this ORIGINATED with the Peltola Campaign.
Daniel J. Sulivan did not decide to run and then solicit assistance from Peltola – Peltola directed her campaign to go out and look for other Sulivans to put on the ballot and Found a Willing Daniel J. Sulivan.
You keep aluding to other elections – Likely Hafner – you do not seem to be willing to actually those anymore.
Because they ARE DIFFERENT.
The Alaska Supreme court ruled in favor of Daniel J. Sullivan earlier – BECAUSE he and his lawyers told the court he was a legitimate candidate, that he had been thinking about running for Senate for over a decade and that no one solicited him.
He LIED.
In addition to the Obvious election fraud – there are also multiple violations of campaign finance law. We have evidence of communications between the DSCC, a Democrat SuperPAC, The Elias Group, Daniel J. Sullivan and the Peltola Campaign.
By law Superpacs can not coordinate with candidates or campaigns.
If Peltola actually manages to win on Tuesday – there will likely be essentially a constitutional crisis that likely will take months and end up before the supreme court.
I do not beleive it is likely that she wins. I do not beleive it was likely before. But the Polls could actually be right for once.
Even if she loses – this was a crime and there is an investigation and there will be subpeonas warrants. likely prosecutions lots of people taking the fifth, Plea Deals …. There are many many people involved in this – the very fact that NYT was able to get this story means that SOME of them are willing to speak and grasped this was a crime.
No OKeefe was not caught committing voter fraud – that is a radically different case and the Minnesota AG is way over her skis.
Okeefes people were given detailed vetted legal instructions and that process was Videoed – because OKeefe KNOWS that idiot democrats will come after him for exposing their fraud. They were very careful NOT to commit Fraud – They were engaged in undercover investigative reporting.
They did NOT vote. They did NOT touch a ballot. They did NOT sign anything, and they did NOT use a false identity.
The MN AG will lose this case badly – what is unfortunate is that she will not be sanctioned for filing it.
OKeefe has been the victim of this kind of lawfare before and has won all attempts by Left wing nuts to prosecute him for exposing THEIR Fraud.
Fox which oddly is one of the more left leaning polls has TX tied right now.
Republicans are not running on scaremongering about communism and socialism – Myriads of Democrats are litterally running as communists and socialists. The Democratic party is nuts.
SOME of those candidates are backtracking – or more accurately refusing to talk about their own remarks – even remarks made during the current campaign that embraced socialism or communism or antisemitism.
Republicans have done a bad job of messaging in this cycle – Contra the left – they have a strong economy, growing jobs, tax breaks for the working class, and a long list of accomplishments that they have done a poor job of selling.
They have some problems because – some things are not fully accomplished yet – Iran has not yet capitulated. There is not yet a peace deal in Ukraine. Hezbolah is not yet exterminated, Canada has not yet agreed to a trade deal. Gas Prices – though NOT outside historic norms – lower than under Biden and in real dollars lower than the entire Obama administration are still high because of the Iran conflict – but that will end – likely soon.
Inflation is far lower than under Biden – but still too high. But REAL Growth though below projections is good and rising. It is more than double the average growth under Obama and infinitely greater that the zero growth under Biden.
Regardless have Republicans done a poor job of selling their accomplishments – absolutely.
But Democrats have done even worse. ICE and Deportations are a supermajority republican issue, But in deep blue cities with a small minority of voters in a low turnout election they are an advantage for Democrats – though they have to be very careful not to wake the sleeping giant.
Idiotic and false Trump nonsense also plays well on the far left – and if Democrats can get the far left to show up in a low turnout election – the can win.
You rant that Republicans have been shilling a socialist and communist boogey man – But nuerous high profile Democrats have Run on EXACTLY that.
You want to “have your cake and eat it too” – You can not concurrently get away with claiming to be a socialist and denying you are a socialist.
You can not claim to be a communist and deny you are a communist.
No All democrats are not card carrying communists and socialists. Many are not even “social democrats”.
But many are openly communist, openly socialist, openly “social democrat”. As well as openly racist, openly antisemetic.
Many Democratic candidates are repugnant to other Democrats.
Haley Stevens did her best to toe the party line to support the democrat party even though El Sayed was running a vile and nasty antisemetic campaign.
I would further note that many of the Republican attacks – are just circuitous efforts to expose the REAL Democrat they are running against.
Wl Sayed is NOT Hassan Piker – but he has embraced Hassan Piker.
I do not care that El Sayed is egyption – I do not care that his family has strong past ties to the Muslim Brotherhood – which is ACTUALLY Fascist, The Muslim brotherhood recruited the most brutal members of the Waffen SS. What people care about – What Haley Stevens cares about is that El Sayed can not even call scapegoating Jews Wrong
It is a small thing – but El Sayed did a recent interview where he avoided actual issues entirely and talked about Basketball and how Pete Hegseth was just a mediocre white boy white boy whose parents told him that he was exceptional While El Sayed – who reportedly loves basketball and is possibly good at it, did not have parents who came to his games and told him he was great. El Sayed showed video of himself wiffing free throws repeatedly – all fine, I can’t hit a free throw either, and I loved playing basketball. But I have not claimed to be good at it, only to enjoy it.
Hegseth responded by posting video of hitting 9 of Ten shots from outside the 3pt circle, and his parents posted his awards for All State Champion in basketball.
The above is NOT about basketball. It is about STUPID lying and getting caught. El Sayed made stupid assumptions about Hegseth – as he does about everyone and everything – as those of you on the left do about everyone and everything.
Assumptions he EASILY could have checked before hand. El Sayed talking about his own interest in basketball is fine and an attempt to humanize him. But he stupidly compared himself to someone he did not know and made idiotically false assumptions that proved to be terribly wrong.
Further he turned talking about his love of basketball into whining about others.
No one in their right mind wants as Senator someone who stupidly fires from the hip and is Wrong. No one wants as senator someone who is still whining about his childhood. While trying to paint himself otherwise – El Sayed grew up wealthy and privileged. He is trying to run as a poor disadvantaged black guy.
John Say,
“This is not moot.
Numerous legal analysts -= including Turley and Derschowitz have pointed out this is a Crime.”
And what crime is that?
Funny you don’t mention it.
”This is NOT an effort to crowd the ballot to give voters alternate choices. This is a deliberate effort to deceive voters – that is called FRAUD.”
So thought you said fraud as only about property. Deceiving voters is not fraud. It’s typical dirty campaign tricks that have been legal for some time. Republicans did this back in 2024 with Hafner. Despite your measly protestations they did the same thing Democrats are doing now. The ONLY difference is Hafner was in jail in NY at the time he filed already a criminal for extortion and threatening elected officials, police, etc. quite a list.
The Alaska Supreme Court already ruled Sullivan did nothing wrong and his candidacy is legitimate.
“In addition to the Obvious election fraud – there are also multiple violations of campaign finance law. We have evidence of communications between the DSCC, a Democrat SuperPAC, The Elias Group, Daniel J. Sullivan and the Peltola Campaign.
By law Superpacs can not coordinate with candidates or campaigns.”
LOL! Nope.
The DSCC is NOT a superpac. The DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) is not a super PAC. It is an official national political party committee.
The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on June 30, 2026 (National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC), official political party committees like the DSCC are now explicitly allowed to coordinate unlimited spending directly with candidates. Communicating or coordinating strategy between the DSCC and a campaign is entirely legal under the First Amendment. How did you miss that?
John Say,
“You rant that Republicans have been shilling a socialist and communist boogey man – But nuerous high profile Democrats have Run on EXACTLY that.”
LOL! Who? Bernie Sanders has always identified himself as a Democratic socialist. Who has claimed to be a communist? A couple? The number is so minuscule that it makes Republicans look like hyperventilating nincompoops. Come on. NYC’s mayor is the same type of Socialist as Bernie Sanders and he’s hugely successful. Which seems to be an annoying thing for those on the right.
”Republicans have done a bad job of messaging in this cycle – Contra the left – they have a strong economy, growing jobs, tax breaks for the working class, and a long list of accomplishments that they have done a poor job of selling.”
Selling the message is not the problem. It’s the fact their policies have failed or have not produced the results they promised. If it’s such a strong economy why haven’t Republicans focused on it? Because it’s actually worse and people are NOT seeing the economic benefits Republicans are claiming. Those choosing to blame Biden can no longer use that excuse. Growing jobs? It’s growing so slowly, barely make it into Obama era levels. Inflation is still high and it hasn’t gotten down and won’t go down if Trump continues to wage war in Iran.
“Haley Stevens did her best to toe the party line to support the democrat party even though El Sayed was running a vile and nasty antisemetic campaign.”
Antisemitic? LOL! How? Being critical of Israel is not anti-Semitic. Haley Stevens made a serious mistake and she’s paying for it dearly. In fact her conduct may have made things a lot worse for Rogers.
John Say,
“Wl Sayed is NOT Hassan Piker – but he has embraced Hassan Piker.
I do not care that El Sayed is egyption – I do not care that his family has strong past ties to the Muslim Brotherhood – which is ACTUALLY Fascist, The Muslim brotherhood recruited the most brutal members of the Waffen SS. What people care about – What Haley Stevens cares about is that El Sayed can not even call scapegoating Jews Wrong”
ROFL! You think everything is fascist. You’re ranting man.
Republicans will certainly lose a lot of seats in the house and senate. It’s looking that way and Republicans are desperate. You can see it in the political adds and mass texts sent at the last minute. None are about the issues. All are scare mongering about socialists, and taxes and transgender kids and so on. Trump’s rallies are looking worse for wear. It’s going to be bad for Republicans in the next few days. Really bad.
Marc Elias needs to feel real jeopardy Only then will he stand any chance at remorse for his heinous conduct.
This is about the part of the Indispensable Right that lives in the zipcode lie down with dogs get up with fleas. It tells us that nuts is normal getting a vote. It does not tell us that nuts is normal for giving our vote. That puts it on each one of us in the voting booth. The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed the Superior Court holding that a candidate cannot be kept off the ballot by intent to confuse, because that is not a qualification requirement of the law. It also affirmed that the law itself gives the election authorities tools to shape the ballot to nix confusion. Alaska’s website tells this writer who the incumbent Sullivan is, and is not. I suggest that the ballot text block about Ballot Measure 2, ending ranked measure voting is every bit as interesting. If Alaska voters pass that, goodbye to a whole bunch of fleas. They almost did last election. We may look and see this blaring dispute had its sights on both of these ballot measures.
Ranked choice voting is salutary. The procedure set up by the Alaska legislature made a mess of it. You benefit from procedural adjustments, not from eliminating ranked choice voting entirely.
I disagree – the central presumption of Ranked Choice voting is false – that is that people put the same thought into 2nd and 3rd choices, and that those choices are unaffected by what actually happens with other candidates.
You can not fix that procedurally.
If you want real ranked choice voting – have runnoffs – that operates under the same principle, but requires people to think about what their 2nd choice actually is.
But you can not fix the problems with Rank Choice procedurally.
That said – this is not a constitutional issue – Alaska can use the means to vote that they choose.
They chose ranked choice – they appear to be ready to unchoose it.
That is normally how choosing ranked choice goes. People like it in the abstract but not in practice.
the central presumption of Ranked Choice voting is false – that is that people put the same thought into 2nd and 3rd choices,
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That is not the central presumption. Nor is that a valid argument against it.
The good professor notes, “Meanwhile, though, tens of thousands of voters in Alaska have already cast ballots that included the decoy Sullivan candidate.”
Alaska is not a state in which statutory provision/precision permits a “re-do” election, (wherein judicial ruling voids an entire previous election result and orders a new election). The more common remedy is a judicial order for a recount or a voiding of specific votes for specific candidates.
Recount does not seem applicable here, but either judicial order voiding votes for the “other” (Dan J Sullivan) might be appropriate; or alternatively, voiding the entire election result and ordering a “re-do” election, see, e.g., “Section 3 New Elections” p. 283 in Remedying Election Results, https://journals.law.harvard.edu/jol/wp-content/uploads/sites/86/2023/02/44HarvJonLegis265.pdf
Lets just hope that Danial S. Sullivan wins and we do not have to sort through this mess.
If Peltola wins – this will be a mess and I strongly suspect that she will eventually be seated.
Courts do not want to decide elections – especially conservative courts.
honestly we should have processes that avoid that.
We should not want courts to involved in politics. It is very bad for the credibility of the courts.