Who’s to Blame for “Ballot Stacking”? I Guess Everybody

Last Friday I mentioned what I called the “stupid, childish, and deceptive” tactic of “ballot stacking,” which is when a campaign recruits another candidate to run for the same office because that person’s name is confusingly similar to the opponent’s. See “Assorted Stupidity #176” (Oct. 30, 2026). As you likely know, there were two “Dan Sullivans” running for the open Senate seat in Alaska, and some cynics accused the Democrats of arranging this merely because the first Dan Sullivan was a Republican. But did that turn out to be true? Huh? Was it true? Of course it was true. Was it not clear that was a rhetorical question. Who else would have bothered to do that? I mean, why are you even reading this paragraph? Come on, man. As I mentioned last week, this is by no means the first time a ballot has been stacked. This is why the tactic has a name. I couldn’t find any earlier references to it on this website (the guy who changed his name to “Andy Griffith” when running for sheriff was as…

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