# Alaska judge rules a request by Peltola campaign for ballot data in Senate race is ‘not reasonable’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/alaska-judge-rules-a-request-by-peltola-campaign-for-ballot-data-in-senate-race-is-not-reasonable/
- Published: 2026-11-12T20:24:30+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-12T21:36:48+00:00
- Original publisher: PBS NewsHour (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/alaska-judge-rules-a-request-by-peltola-campaign-for-ballot-data-in-senate-race-is-not-reasonable
- Topics: Elections, Government, Politics

## Key points

- Judge rejects Peltola campaign’s request for rejected ballot data.
- Alaska’s Senate race remains too close to call.
- Overseas ballots may arrive until 18 November.

## Summary

An Alaska judge has rejected Mary Peltola’s campaign request for a list of absentee voters whose ballots were rejected, ruling it was not reasonable to produce during the ongoing count. The decision leaves election officials focused on counting ballots in a Senate race that remains too close to call.

Peltola’s campaign said it wanted the information to help ensure qualified voters’ ballots were counted; the state argued the records could expose private voter information and take staff away from election duties. Judge Thomas Matthews said the database could not produce a suitably redacted list in time. Alaska accepts some overseas ballots until 18 November, and officials aim to conduct ranked-choice tabulations that day if no candidate gets more than half of first-choice votes.

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