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Same-name candidate disqualified from key Senate race over alleged Dem scheme to confuse voters

A top Alaska election official booted a same-name Republican challenger to Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, from the primary ballot Monday, ruling the campaign appeared designed to confuse voters. Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher disqualified Dan J. Sullivan from the state’s hotly-contested Senate race over concerns that his candidacy was "filed with a purpose to confuse or mislead and to thereby compromise the ballot’s fairness or neutrality," in a letter published Monday.Dan J. Sullivan, a retired schoolteacher who filed as a Republican Senate candidate despite having no prior affili...