An Alaskan whose name is the same as that of incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) is ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot, a state official has determined.
The “other” Dan Sullivan is a 69-year-old retired teacher hailing from Petersburg, Alaska, a small fishing village in the southeast of the state. His candidacy—given his shared name with the incumbent senator and the state’s nonpartisan primary system—drew alarm from Republicans. The challenger was accused of having links to the Senate campaign of former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) in an effort to reduce Sullivan’s vote share due to voter confusion….