A high Alaska election official has dominated {that a} US Senate candidate with the same name and party affiliation as Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan is ineligible to seem on the state’s major poll in August.
Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher, in a letter despatched Monday to the challenger Sullivan, mentioned she concluded that his declaration of 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.”
The challenger can attraction the ruling, she mentioned.
A message looking for remark from Sullivan, the challenger, was not instantly returned. In a social media publish Sunday, he mentioned he “met the qualification and I entered this race because I am unhappy with the 12 year record of the current Senator and I feel we need a change. It’s that simple.”