Alaska’s top election official ruled Monday that only one Dan Sullivan will appear on the state’s Senate ballot after Republicans insisted a second Dan Sullivan was only running to undermine the incumbent, Sen. Dan Sullivan.
Division of Elections director Carol Beecher said in a letter to Dan J. Sullivan, the challenger, that his candidacy “was not filed in order 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.”
Sen. Sullivan’s campaign celebrated the decision as a win for Alaskans.