On the record · Updated October 18, 2026
Alaska Division of Elections Director
11 things Carol Beecher said, verbatim, from June 16, 2026 to July 24, 2026, each linked to where it ran. Grouped by the story each one belongs to.
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“A political consultant you have admitted is working with your campaign is a known longtime supporter of Democratic candidates including the primary Democratic challenger to Senator Sullivan,”
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“was not filed in good faith for the purpose of genuinely pursuing election as Alaska’s U.S. Senator.”
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“Alongside the other facts I have catalogued in this letter, however, it suggests a determined effort and a deliberate attempt to use the similarity of your name to confuse Alaska voters in the upcoming primary election.”
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“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.”
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“I conclude that the preponderance of the evidence is that you chose this new nickname and party affiliation because that name and party affiliation happen to be the name and party affiliation of another candidate in the race,”
on ruling that a rival candidate illegally adopted Dan Sullivan's name and party affiliation
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“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”
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“It is not disenfranchising the individual from being able to vote, but it’s a measure the division has to take to make sure that we only have citizens voting,”
on citizenship verification as election security
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“it appears “a lot of old data was picked up somehow””
on old DMV data inflating citizenship-verification flag counts
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“Every Alaskan has the right to a free and fair election, free from deception and gamesmanship,”
on Alaskans' right to a free election without deception, amid a consultant controversy
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“This consultant’s work on your behalf is, in isolation, innocuous,”
on a campaign consultant's work being innocuous on its own
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“Instead, the decision was based upon a new, previously unstated, ‘good faith’ criteria,”
on an Alaska election board's ballot eligibility decision
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