AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.One Dan Sullivan Is Kicked Off the Ballot in Alaska. One Dan Sullivan Remains.Republicans had accused Democrats of attempting to confuse voters by boosting a candidate with the same name as the incumbent Republican senator.Listen · 3:19 min Alaska’s director of elections ruled Monday that Dan J. Sullivan must be removed from the ballot for Alaska’s Senate race. The decision can be appealed to a state court.Credit...Sullivan for Senate; Eric Lee/The New York TimesJune 15, 2026, 4:34 p.m. ETThe number of Dan Sullivans on Alaska’s ballot for U.S. Senate has been reduced to one.Dan J. Sullivan, the Republican Senate candidate bearing the same first and last name as Senator Dan S. Sullivan, the incumbent Republican, was ruled ineligible to run for office on Monday by the state’s director of elections.Republicans in the state had accused Democrats of plotting to confuse voters by inserting Dan J. Sullivan, a former teacher, into the race, which could have taken votes away from the incumbent senator and boosted Mary Peltola, the Democratic candidate seeking to oust him. Both Ms. Peltola and the challenger named Sullivan have denied any coordination, and he has insisted that his bid was a good-faith effort.Republican state officials responsible for overseeing elections disagreed. Lt. Gov Nancy Dahlstrom began investigating his candidacy last week, and Carol Beecher, the state elections director, said in a preliminary ruling last Wednesday that she was likely to kick him off the ballot unless he could offer compelling evidence of his legitimacy as a candidate.On Monday, Ms. Beecher wrote that she had not received any such evidence.“A declaration of candidacy filed for the purpose of confusing or misleading voters and compromising the fairness of the ballot is not properly filed,” Ms. Beecher wrote. “I am de-certifying your candidacy for United States Senator.”Ms. Beecher cited several pieces of evidence for her decision. She wrote that his attempt to be listed on the ballot as “Dan Sullivan” rather than his registered name of “Daniel J. Sullivan, Jr.” appeared to be an effort to confuse voters about which Sullivan he was.“Indeed, you yourself appeared to be confused when you initially emailed the Division asking to be listed on the ballot as ‘Dan S. Sullivan.’ ‘S’ is Senator Sullivan’s middle initial, not yours,” Ms. Beecher wrote.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT