Alaska Supreme Court

He thought it would cause confusion.

Now, the last time I checked, the Alaska Supreme Court said, listen, Dan Sullivan can run.

He cannot be denied the chance to run simply because of his name.

However...

They sued to get Alaska to not certify the election should Daniel J. Sullivan win because they claim it would have been based on voter confusion.

Now, I look at things a little different.

I actually was pleased with the way the Alaska Supreme Court came to a solution because they identified the two different Dan Sullivans, I believe, sufficiently for anybody who's actually paying attention Two don't recognize the difference.

One is listed as a Republican and the incumbent.

Yes, he did.

And previously, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled on this issue and said it could go ahead as is.

That's why they put incumbent on the ballot.

For folks that aren't aware, Alaska has ranked choice voting, which means if people truly are confused and can't you know, are looking at a ballot and don't know which one is which, you get to vote for both.

pass.

I think the only thing that they've got on because it went to the Alaska Supreme Court.

And the Alaska Supreme Court put this guy on the ballot, even though they were trying to get him off as a fake candidate.

And there were people that got up there and swore in testimony about who he was and what he was doing and that they weren't involved and all that kind of stuff.

Now, they can get them to do the Martha Stewart thing.

which means the courts end up handing him his ass and he declares victory anyway.

Well, the Supreme Court of Alaska has already said that this is a nothing burger.

There's nothing against the law of two men with similar names running for the same office.

No, there isn't.

I mean, like you said, you're the one that told me about Alaska.

Respect the Alaska Supreme Court.

A lot of this stuff rolls up to the state Supreme Courts, and they uphold it or don't in either case.

In both directions, frankly.

As for what a criminal investigation might be in this case, the details are really sparse.

But insofar as it's trying to criminalize ballot stacking, as you pointed out, Allison, this issue has been litigated all the way up to the Alaska Supreme Court, the Alaska Supreme Court of firm to lower court ruling, finding that it didn't matter whether Dan J. Sullivan was a quote unquote good faith candidate.

He could be the worst faith candidate in the world.

He could have run on the platform of sowing voter confusion to siphon votes from the incumbent.