Alaska candidate with same name as Sen. Dan Sullivan disqualified by election official

The disqualified Senate candidate, who’s a Republican, has 30 days to appeal the decision. Ballots are being printed June 28 for the Aug. 18 primary election.

A Republican candidate named Dan Sullivan who’s challenging GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan for a Senate seat in Alaska has been deemed ineligible for this year’s primary by a top state elections official.

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In a letter Monday, Alaska’s Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher told the challenger that his candidacy “was not filed in good faith for the purpose of genuinely pursuing election as Alaska’s U.S. Senator.”

Beecher added that his declaration to run for the office was “filed with a purpose to confuse or mislead and to thereby compromise the ballot’s fairness or neutrality.”