Then–Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill addresses her supporters at her midterm election night party in St. Louis, Mo., November 6, 2018.(Sarah Conard/Reuters)
Alaska’s director of elections, Carol Beecher, was unsparing in a letter explaining her decision to boot Dan Sullivan from the ballot in November. No, not that Dan Sullivan, i.e., Republican U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan, but another candidate who just happened to go by Dan J. Sullivan.
Dan J. Sullivan’s U.S. Senate bid, Beecher concluded, was not “an actual good-faith candidacy” for the office he sought. Rather, it was “filed with a purpose to confuse or mislead and thereby compromise the ballot’s fairness or neutrality.”
It was a ruse likely designed by the senator’s opponents to trick his voters into thinking they were ...
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