Alaska official blocks same-name Senate challenger from primary ballot (opens in new tab)

Alaska Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher ruled Monday that Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., a Republican challenger who shares the name of incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, is ineligible to appear on the state’s August U.S. Senate primary ballot. Beecher wrote that the challenger’s candidacy declaration was not filed to launch an “actual good-faith candidacy,” but instead was filed “with a purpose to confuse or mislead” voters and compromise the ballot’s fairness or neutrality. The ru...