Not the Republican party, the Justice Department. We pay for this and DOJ lawyers received this task and said "ok". Those lawyers need to lose their jobs in the next administration.
Also, Alaska's supreme court, the ultimate authority on what kind of candidate is legal to run in Alaska, already decided this. The DOJ has no role.
These are the same people who run Republican candidates with the same or similar names of other candidates on ballots, as a winning tactic?
Here, the DOJ argues that the presence of a presumed spoiler candidate on the ballot, Daniel J. Sullivan, will taint the race by confusing voters who intended to vote for the incumbent Republican senator, Daniel S. Sullivan. It demands that the judge block any certification until an investigation can “determine whether votes cast for Daniel J. Sullivan were meant to be cast for Senator Sullivan.”
They do have a bit of point; Republican voters are certainly not the most informed. But don't the ballots list a candidate's party beside their name?
Republicans need a fresh new renaming. They're now called Rapists. Same R next to their name but with a better descriptive word.
Traitors to the U.S.
Aside from all the insane legal theories, the relief they're requesting is also insane and quite anti-democratic:
They want an injunction that decertifies the election results but only if the Republican guy loses by less than however many votes the other Dan Sullivan gets.
It's like, election loss insurance, or something.
So Alaska gets no senator? Okay I guess
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