That feels illegal. You can't enter the race just because you share a name with someone else?

Some bullshit ruling there. Saying you can't run because of your name is wild.

“Sorry that username is already taken“

Just gotta call out this scene from season 5 of Fargo

Alaska elections director, Carol Beecher, wrote that the “utterly unprecedented facts” in the case led her to conclude that Dan J Sullivan’s declaration of candidacy for US Senate “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”.

My dude, if you disqualified candidates for their actions to confuse, mislead, and compromise election integrity, there would be no republicans left on the ballot.

Kinda reminds me of the story of how David X Cohen (Futurama, Disenchantment, The Simpsons) got the middle initial X when his middle name is Samuel: when he went to be registered with The Writers Guild there was already a David S Cohen, and they don’t allow two people with identical names to be registered, so he chose X because it sounds more ‘sci-fi-ish’.