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A judge dismissed the Justice Department's lawsuit over the Alaska Senate election, and the DOJ said it would appeal, CNBC reported. The suit had sought to bar the state from certifying the election if the Republican incumbent lost. Senator Dan Sullivan said he will accept the election results and criticized the Peltola campaign's reported recruitment of a second candidate named Sullivan. Democratic nominee Mary Peltola is now facing two candidates named Dan Sullivan, one of them the Republican incumbent. The report did not give the judge's reasoning or the legal basis for the dismissal.