Nancy Dahlstrom
Republican Lieutenant Governor of Alaska, the state's elections chief, sued by Mary Peltola's campaign.
Lieutenant Governor Nancy Dahlstrom is named as a defendant in Mary Peltola's 6 November public-records suit over Alaska's absentee ballots. A hearing was listed for 10 November, eight days before the Senate tabulation.
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Nancy Dahlstrom, as lieutenant governor, oversees the Alaska Division of Elections, which is counting the 2026 Senate race. On the 10 November count, Peltola stood 4,250 first choices in front of Senator Dan S. Sullivan. Judge Thomas Matthews of Anchorage Superior Court is hearing the records suit against her office.
Dahlstrom, a Republican, has been lieutenant governor since December 2022. She was earlier the state's corrections commissioner and a state legislator. She withdrew from the 2024 US House race and, on 1 June 2026, from the 2026 governor's race.
The state has argued in court that opening her office's absentee records would breach voters' privacy.
Dahlstrom's office resists the records demand
Peltola's campaign filed Alaskans for Mary v. Dahlstrom against the lieutenant governor, the Division of Elections and its director Carol Beecher on 6 November 2026, in Anchorage Superior Court. It demands the list of absentee ballots returned to the Division, with the code recording each one's status. The state answered that it need not produce information it does not hold in the form requested, and that disclosure would violate voter privacy.
Sullivan's campaign sought to join the case on 9 November. Judge Thomas Matthews scheduled argument for 10 November, and by 11 November no ruling was public. Dahlstrom's office therefore faces a judge's scrutiny of its absentee handling ahead of the 18 November ranked-choice count and the certification planned for 25 November.
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