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The fight for election integrity is escaping the voting booth and spilling onto the campaign trail as Democrats get creative in their efforts to claw the Senate back from Republican control.<\/p>\n

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In Alaska, a copycat candidate who shares a name with incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan launched a campaign with the backing of a Democratic consultant that was, according to the state\u2019s Division of Elections, intentionally designed to confuse voters about who they\u2019d be casting their ballot for.<\/p>\n

In other Republican-leaning states, like Nebraska and Montana, Democrats have taken to dressing their candidates up as independents and downplaying their left-wing policy commitments to avoid weighing them down with the party\u2019s toxic brand.<\/p>\n

Following the 2020 election, the idea of election integrity, especially in the context of President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cStop the Steal\u201d campaign, left a bitter taste in many Americans\u2019 mouths. Now, as a Republican-controlled Congress struggles to pass the Trump-backed Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, which attempts to ensure only American citizens vote in federal elections, tangible and productive victories feel few and far between.<\/p>\n

Yet, Republicans have secured some unconventional, but important, election integrity wins in key Senate races across the U.S., as November elections rapidly approach and the fate of a Republican majority in both houses of Congress lies in the balance.<\/p>\n

Seeing Double in Alaska<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Division of Elections in Alaska threw the second Sullivan off the ballot after Alaska\u2019s director of elections Carol Beecher found that he sought \u201cto confuse [himself] with another candidate in the race, the incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan.\u201d Beecher pointed out that the candidate registered to run under the exact same name as the incumbent despite records showing no previous affiliation with that variation of the name.<\/p>\n

The impostor candidate was historically registered to vote under the name \u201cDaniel J. Sullivan, Jr,\u201d yet his campaign filings did not match those records. Both the \u201cJ\u201d and the \u201cJr.\u201d were notably dropped off the candidate\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

The fake Sullivan\u2019s initial approach was even more brazen: He requested to file under the name \u201cDan S. Sullivan\u201d \u2014 a name identical to the incumbent\u2019s \u2014 despite the fact his actual middle name begins with a \u201cJ.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her , Beecher notes other odd similarities to the incumbent senator\u2019s campaign, including an aesthetically similar campaign website, featuring dark blue accents and gold stars, as well as the candidate\u2019s decisions to run as a Republican, after voting for Democrats his entire life. Not only were voters faced with candidates sharing the same name and party, but also campaign materials essentially mirroring each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, under Alaska law, you are free to change your party affiliation,\u201d Beecher wrote. \u201cThis said, that you chose to change your affiliation to the same political party \u2014 one you\u2019d never affiliated with before \u2014 as the incumbent Senator immediately before filing a declaration of candidacy in which you asked to access the ballot under the same name \u2013 [sic] in a shortened form you\u2019d never used before \u2013 [sic] as the incumbent Senator strongly suggests an intent to confuse yourself with the incumbent Senator rather than to distinguish yourself from him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further, Beecher said a political consultant Sullivan hired not only has longtime ties to Democrats, but supported the incumbent Sullivan\u2019s Democratic challenger in the primary. While Beecher conceded that hiring the consultant, \u201cin isolation, is innocuous,\u201d paired with the other evidence it \u201csuggests a determined effort and a deliberate attempt to use the similarity of your name to confuse Alaska voters in the upcoming primary election.\u201d<\/p>\n

In May, it was revealed progressive consultant Amber Lee, who supported former Representative Mary Peltola \u2014 who is running as a Democrat for Senate in Alaska \u2014 actually authored the phony Sullivan\u2019s campaign announcement, according to a PDF file of the campaign press release, Townhall<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n

Following Beecher\u2019s announcement, the second Sullivan campaign said it is challenging the decision, claiming removing the candidate from the ballot violates state and federal law. Notably, Sullivan\u2019s attorneys did not deny that his candidacy was intended to confuse voters, they just insisted that a candidate\u2019s motivation for running is irrelevant to their eligibility.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNothing in Alaska law regulates in any way the private motivations that draw individuals to declare or campaign for office,\u201d Sullivan\u2019s attorneys wrote in a court filing obtained by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Alaska Department of Law spokesperson Sam Curtis told the AP the agency will defend the division\u2019s previous findings.\u00a0Ballots in Alaska are set to be printed later this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats are resorting to deception because they can\u2019t win over Alaska and Montana voters on the merits,\u201d Bernadette Breslin, National Republican Senatorial Committee national press secretary said in a statement to National Review<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The Independent Shell Game<\/p>\n

In Montana, Democrats are playing a different, albeit less overt, shell game. There, the party is attempting to quietly push Seth Bodnar, an ostensibly independent candidate, across the finish line. While Bodnar is running as an Independent, he\u2019s received support from Senator Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and former Democratic Senator Jon Tester and, as previously reported, he has deep ties to other establishment Democrats and well-documented progressive commitments. During his tenure as president of the University of Montana, for instance, Bodnar allowed a transgender athlete to compete on the women\u2019s cross-country team.<\/p>\n

A Bodnar victory in November is likely contingent on Democratic candidate Alani Bankhead dropping out of the race, as the two candidates seem to be splitting the left-wing vote. Amid rumors of her imminent departure, Bankhead doubled down last week on her commitment to stay in the race. She then called for Bodnar to step down, citing Montana election code and state Democratic Party bylaws, which require a Democratic candidate to remain on the ballot.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf dropping out was the right move to pave the way for a better candidate, I would absolutely do it because the stakes are so high,\u201d Bankhead said last week. \u201cBut Seth Bodnar is absolutely the last person on the face of this earth I would ever drop out of this race for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assuming Bankhead and Bodnar both remain in the race, the polling looks positive for Republican candidate and former Montana state Attorney General Kurt Alme, who is vying for Senator Steve Daines\u2019s (R., Mont.) seat. Alme is polling 44 percent, compared to Bankhead\u2019s 25 percent and Bodnar\u2019s 20 percent.<\/p>\n

Montana is not the only state where a textbook Democrat is running as an Independent to avoid alienating a right-leaning electorate.<\/p>\n

In Nebraska, Dan Osborn is running as an Independent against incumbent Senator Pete Ricketts (R., Neb.). Osborn\u2019s campaign slogan is \u201cLifelong Independent,\u201d but the candidate is endorsed by Nebraska\u2019s Democratic Party and has accepted thousands in donations from progressive sources like Senator Elizabeth Warren\u2019s (D., Mass.) campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cDan\u2019s campaign is powered by small-dollar, grassroots donations from people across the political spectrum and constantly hears from Republicans, Democrats, and Independents who are fed up with both major parties who are out of touch with the real issues people face,\u201d a campaign spokesperson told National Review<\/span>. \u201cAs a lifelong independent, Dan will always do what\u2019s right for Nebraskans. He won\u2019t caucus with either party because his job is to represent his state, not the interests of the establishment politicians and corporations who have used their money to corrupt our political system.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bodnar campaign did not respond to National Review<\/span>\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

Whether it\u2019s misleading party affiliations or Dan Sullivan squared, Republicans are highlighting Democrats\u2019 attempts to shift the messaging around progressive \u2014 and potentially unpopular \u2014 candidates in more conservative states.<\/p>\n

\u201cVoters will see through their political stunts and reward Republican candidates like Sen. Dan Sullivan and Kurt Alme as they work to lower costs, defend election integrity, and protect the President\u2019s Senate majority,\u201d Breslin said.<\/p>\n

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