The Division of Elections said it had a June 28 deadline to print primary ballots.
But then they took Daniel J. Sullivan off the ballot in the US Senate race and were challenged in court and required to put him back on by the Superior and then Alaska Supreme Court.
Then a sample ballot appeared on their website which left off Daniel J.'s political party and added "Incumbent" to Senator Dan S Sullivan's name on the ballot. (Honorifics are not allowed and someone checked the last four elections and reported that no one had 'incumbent' by their name.)
Since then there's been almost complete silence.
- Were the ballots printed? If so, what do they look like?
- Did Daniel J. file any sort of legal complaint?
- What do the judges think about all this? They said they'd trust the professionalism of the Division of Elections, but that was clearly a mistake.
The only word has been from NBC saying the US Department of Justice and the Alaska Attorney General's office are investigating a conspiracy around putting Daniel J. on the ballot. Because he was trying to confuse the public. I can think of others they should investigate first on that charge.
Do you think the Republicans are worried about losing the Senate?
It's July 7 already and no word. Yes, the July 4 holiday took up some time. In fact the Division of Elections office in Anchorage was closed Friday AND Monday.

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