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Alaska’s ‘Sham’ Dan Sullivan Booted From Primary Election Ballot

An Alaskan candidate for U.S. Senate who ran under the same name and party affiliation as incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan has been declared ineligible to appear on the primary ballot by the state’s elections director.

On Monday, Alaska Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher stated in a letter to candidate Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. that his election filing was not to “declare an actual good-faith candidacy for the office of United States Senator, but was instead filed with a purpose to confuse or mislead and to thereby compromise the ballot’s fairness or neutrality.”

Sullivan filed for candidacy only two days before the June 1 deadline—and as Beecher pointed out, he filed as “Dan Sullivan” and did not include his middle initial or suffix to differentiate himself from the incumbent senator. 

Sharing the name with the senator is merely a “matter of fate,” this Sullivan claims.

“I am a qualified candidate who........

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