Sen. Dan Sullivan’s (R-AK) challenger who has the same name as the incumbent has been deemed ineligible for the Senate primary race.

On Monday, Alaska Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher determined on Monday that Dan J. Sullivan’s declaration of candidacy “was not filed in order to declare an actual good-faith candidacy for the office of United States Senator, but was instead filed with a purpose to confuse or mislead and to thereby compromise the ballot’s fairness or neutrality.”