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The Alaska Supreme Court is hearing a case Monday that will decide whether or not to remove a Senate candidate with the same name as the incumbent he is challenging from the ballot.<\/p>\n

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Republican Senate candidate Dan J. Sullivan announced his campaign to run against Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan earlier this year. The Honest Elections Project (HEP) filed an \u00a0arguing that the new candidate Sullivan was not \u201cproperly filed\u201d for candidacy and that his name causes confusion on the ballot.<\/p>\n

The brief claims that he filed \u201cto confuse voters and corrupt the neutrality of the ballot.\u201d The court must make a decision before June 30. (RELATED: FBI Floods Skid Row In Homeless Voter Fraud Investigation)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Alaska Division of Elections earlier in June that Dan J. Sullivan was ineligible to run because he did not file in \u201cactual good-faith candidacy,\u201d but rather filed to confuse voters, according to a press release from the HEP sent to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The Alaska Superior Court then overruled the Alaska Division of Elections\u2019 ruling, but the state appealed, leading to the case being sent to the state\u2019s Supreme Court, according to the press release.<\/p>\n

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People walk into a polling station to cast early ballots for the upcoming midterm elections on November 05, 2022 in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Under the U.S. Constitution Elections Clause, \u201ca state may exercise its authority for \u2018the prevention of fraud and corrupt practices\u2019 and \u2018the protection of voters,’\u201d and \u201cexpressly permits regulation \u2018to avoid undue voter confusion,’\u201d according to the amicus brief.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe facts of this case are clear and egregious: Dan J. Sullivan\u2014aka \u2018Decoy Dan\u2019\u2014seems determined to orchestrate a fraud on the people of Alaska. States across the country and throughout American history have stopped phony candidacies like this one to preserve the integrity of the process,\u201d Jason Snead, Executive Director of HEP Action, said in a statement to the DCNF. \u201cAlaska officials have done the same, and it is time for the Alaska Supreme Court to respect their authority, uphold the rule of law, and safeguard Alaska\u2019s elections by keeping this obviously phony candidate off the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither Dan Sullivan immediately responded to DCNF\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n

Dan J. Sullivan requested to run as a Republican \u2013 <\/strong>even though he had no prior association with the Republican Party \u2013\u00a0further causing confusion on the ballot, according to the from the Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher.<\/p>\n

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Because Alaska uses a ranked choice voting system and because of the nominal confusion with the new candidate Sullivan, even if a small number of voters are misled into voting for new candidate Sullivan, instead of Sen. Sullivan, it could swing the election, the press release noted.<\/p>\n

In Alaska, the top four candidates, regardless of party, from the primary election proceed to the general election conducted via ranked choice voting.<\/p>\n

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