Double Dans? Second Dan Sullivan removed from Alaska Senate ballot

An Alaskan election official determined Monday that a candidate with the same name as incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) is ineligible to appear on the ballot.

“On review of the complaints and other information in the Division’s possession, I conclude that your declaration of candidacy was not properly filed with the Division because it 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,” Carol Beecher, director of the Governor’s Division of Elections, wrote in a Monday letter to the candidate, Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.