Eric Hafner

Yeah.

I'll tell you what, the House race, your Eric Hafner, who's sitting in a federal prison in New York State, he got 15,000 votes in the House race up in Alaska.

Yeah, that has a lot of people scratching their heads.

I haven't seen any look at the rankings over there yet.

Yeah.

That is a prison inmate, a guy in federal prison in the state of New York by the name of Eric Hafner, who's apparently only gotten on the ballot somehow, even though he's never set foot in Alaska.

The photo was taken, just taken off his prison ID.

There you have it right there.

I do want to point out here that Eric Hafner, remember we talked earlier about the spoiler Senate candidate who failed to get on the ballot in Alaska, Carol Hafner? This is Carol's son, Eric.

They ran on fake tickets together as a father-son, a mother-son outing, I guess.

I don't fucking, the things people get up to, dude.

In the last days before election day, the Alaskan Democratic Party is making a request.

So I think this confusion thing especially is way overblown.

What about the Eric Hafner controversy, which didn't garner much support down here, but I think is an awesome story.

I don't know why more people aren't talking about it, but there's a guy sitting in federal prison in New York who's running as a Democrat for the House seat in Alaska.

Yeah, and so that's – it's sort of an unfortunate byproduct of open primaries.

You have a kind of corporate.

You have a sort of Trumpy one.

And so in Alaska, right, so this Eric Hafner guy, I think he finished fifth or something, and he sort of moved up because people dropped out.

And, yeah, I think it's sort of this – it's really built on some very odd logic, which is the requirements that you live in the state are only in there when you are elected.

It requires safeguarding to ensure full participation and public trust in our elections.

Central to this effort to keep control of the Senate is the state of Alaska, where Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola has a slight edge over the Republican incumbent, Senator Dan Sullivan.

In late October, the administration sued to prevent the certification of any candidate in the election unless Sullivan wins.

The administration's argument was that Alaskan election officials had agreed to permit two candidates with similar names to be on the ballot.

On Friday, October 30th, after a New York Times article alleged that members of Peltola's staff recruited a challenger with a name similar to Republican Dan Sullivan, a common and legal maneuver both parties engage in, the administration asked a judge to order election officials in Alaska to separate all ballots that rank Daniel J. Sullivan from the rest of the ballots in the election.

As Gary Grumbach and Kyla Guilfoyle reported at NBC News, they claimed they wanted the ballot separated for the purposes of investigating whether such ranking was the product of voter confusion should such an investigation become necessary.

They did not explain how such a ballot could be reviewed or how reviewing a ballot would explain if a voter was confused.

It also downplayed that under Alaska's ranked choice voting system, any ballots on which the lesser known Sullivan is ranked first will automatically go to the voter's second choice, presumably Dan Sullivan, if no candidate wins more than 50% of the votes on the first round.