“A man serving time on a 20-year prison sentence for threatening officials in New Jersey has made it onto Alaska’s general election ballot for the state’s lone U.S. House seat this November,” the AP reports.
“Eric Hafner was convicted in 2022 of threatening to kill judges, police officers and others and sentenced to serve 20 years in federal prison. He originally came in sixth in Alaska’s ranked choice primary, which allows only the top four vote-getters to advance to the general election.”
“But Matthew Salisbury (R) withdrew from the race just ahead of Monday’s deadline, and Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom (R) withdrew last month. That means Hafner will appear on the November general election ballot along with Alaskan Independence Party chairman John Wayne Howe and frontrunners Rep. Mary Peltola (D) and Nick Begich (R).”
