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Alaska’s Supreme Court just handed a major win to a disqualifying Senate candidate, Dan J. Sullivan, who was kicked off the ballot for allegedly being a “bad faith” candidate — but the court ruled the state overstepped by inventing its own rules. The state claimed he was trying to confuse voters by mimicking the incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan, citing GOP complaints and campaign materials. But the court made it clear: election officials can’t decide who’s “good faith” — that’s a constitutional line they can’t cross. Even weirder? After the ruling, he appeared on the ballot as “Daniel J. Sullivan, Jr.” to distinguish him from the incumbent — a move the Division of Elections defended as necessary to avoid ballot chaos. This case is a textbook example of how election law gets tangled in interpretation — and why courts often step in to protect the Constitution over political convenience.

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