According to Article III Project attorney Will Chamberlain, the effort made to recruit a second “Dan Sullivan” for the ballot to confuse Alaska voters could be considered a violation of federal conspiracy-against-rights law (18 U.S.C. 241), which carries a sentence of up to ten years in prison.
As he explained, it’s against the law to “injure or harm” someone’s constitutional rights, and one of those rights, of course, is the right “to vote for the candidate of your choice.” Anyone who was misguided (as in, TRICKED) into voting for Dan J. Sullivan when that voter had meant to vote for incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan was surely deprived of that right.
“These people conspired to place a fake decoy Dan Sullivan on the ballot,” Chamberlain told FOX News Digital, “in order to trick people who were going into the ballot box intending to vote for the incumbent senator, Dan Sullivan, and by trickery get them to vote for somebody else. There’s a lot of good precedent on this that suggests that’s a crime, and a felony punished by up to ten years in prison.”
As you know, they even managed to get him placed on the ballot ABOVE Sen. Dan Sullivan, making the trickery even easier.