众议员詹姆斯·科默（R-肯塔基州）表示，即使前众议员玛丽·佩尔托拉（D-阿拉斯加）赢得阿拉斯加参议院选举，也“很有可能”她不会被正式就职，此前有报道称她的竞选团队参与了“堆票”计划。
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said there is a “big possibility” that former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) won’t be seated even if she wins Alaska’s Senate race following reports that her campaign participated in a “ballot-stacking” scheme.
在福克斯新闻《Sunday Morning》节目中，科默被问及如果佩尔托拉赢得选举，她是否有可能不被就职。
Appearing on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning,” Comer was asked if there was a possibility Peltola would not be seated even if she won the election.
科默说：“这很有可能。我还没有和参议员图恩谈过这件事。我们在调查时大多局限于众议院的权限，但归根结底，我认为美国人民能够清楚地看到这里发生了什么。”科默是众议院监督委员会主席。
“That’s a big possibility. I have not spoken to Senator Thune about that. We kind of tend to operate within the confinement of the House with respect to our investigations, but at the end of the day, I think the American people can see loud and clear what was done here,” Comer, the House Oversight Committee chair, said.
科默尤其严厉批评佩尔托拉的竞选团队，原因是一篇《纽约时报》报道指称她的竞选团队和全国民主党招募了另一名与她的共和党对手丹·沙利文参议员（R-阿拉斯加）同名的候选人，以稀释共和党的票数。
Comer, particularly, has heavily criticized Peltola’s campaign over a New York Times report that alleged her campaign and national Democrats recruited another candidate who shared the same name as her Republican opponent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) in order to dilute the GOP vote.
在阿拉斯加这种非党派、前四名投票制度下，堆票是一种常见做法。共和党策略师此前对《国会山报》表示，这并不违法。
Ballot “stacking” is a common practice, especially in Alaska’s unusual nonpartisan, top four voting system. GOP strategists previously told The Hill that it is not illegal.
科默说：“我们不能容忍这种情况发生。而且，民主党全国党组织中有很多人对此保持沉默，问题仍然是：到底有哪些人参与了？这种参与何时开始？是否有金钱往来？这是一个大问题。”他补充道：“这可能是最需要回答的问题。是否有金钱往来？随后又违反了哪些法律？”他已经启动了对佩尔托拉参与此行动的调查——安排对佩尔托拉前竞选经理埃莉莎·里奥斯（《纽约时报》曾采访过）和民主党活动家杰里德·库尔茨进行现场文字记录的访谈。科默要求里奥斯于11月5日作证，库尔茨于11月6日作证。
“We cannot allow this to happen. And the fact that there are a lot of people involved in the Democrat National Party who have been silent on this, and the question remains: Who all was involved? When did this involvement begin? Did money change hands? That’s a big question,” Comer continued. “That’s probably the biggest question that needs to be answered. Did money change hands? And then you know what laws were broken after that?”He has already launched a probe into Peltola’s involvement in the operation – scheduling transcribed interviews for both Elisa Rios, Peltola’s former campaign manager who The Times spoke with, and Jerid Kurtz, a Democratic operative, requesting in-person, transcribed interviews. Comer requested that Rios testify on Nov. 5 and Kurtz on Nov. 6.
沙利文周日早些时候表示，即使败选他也会接受选举结果，而参议员蒂姆·斯科特（共和党-南卡罗来纳州）则回避了同样的问题。
Sullivan said earlier Sunday that he would accept the election results even if he lost though Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) dodged answering the same question.