Candidate for Competitive Alaska House Seat Has Never Been to the State — and Is Currently in a N.Y. Prison
Eric Hafner, a fringe candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, is serving a 20-year sentence in federal prison ...
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Early election results mistakenly showed imprisoned U.S. House candidate leading in one Southeast Alaska precinct
Unofficial results from the Division of Elections early last week showed one Southeast Alaska precinct seemed to overwhelmingly choose a peculiar candidate for the U.S. House — a man currently ...
Who Is Eric Hafner? Jailed Alaska Candidate Could Tip Congress to GOP
Hafner is serving a 20-year prison sentence in the Otisville Federal Correctional Institution in New York after pleading guilty in 2022 to phoning in false bomb threats and threatening judges, police ...
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What’s next for Alaska election results? Tuesday is next big ballot count.
Begich currently has 49.45%. Peltola has 45.45%. John Wayne Howe, an Alaska Independence Party candidate, has 3.9%. Eric ...
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How a Man Imprisoned in New York Could Sway a Key House Race in Alaska
Eric Hafner, who is serving a 20-year sentence, is running to represent a state in which he has never set foot. He could play the spoiler under Alaska’s ranked-choice system. By Corey Kilgannon ...
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Eric Hafner, a New York federal inmate, makes a run for Congress
Eric Hafner is running a unique campaign for the Alaska U.S. House of Representatives seat.
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Why an Alaskan Talking a Lot About Fish Could Win Democrats Back the House
In 2022, Mary Peltola won a House race in Alaska against Sarah Palin on “Fish, Family, and Freedom.” Can she win another ...
Opinion: A prisoner ran for Congress in Alaska — why we should go slow on election reforms
Two years ago in Alaska, former governor Sarah Palin lost the race for that congressional seat and quickly blamed ...
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Prisoner standing for Congress could sway key election race 3,000 miles away from his cell
Eric Hafner, 33, pleaded guilty in 2022 to charges of making threats against police officers, judges and others in New Jersey. However, despite never setting foot in the state, he is running for ...
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How a man imprisoned in New York could sway Alaska’s key U.S. House race
He is Eric Hafner, running in a state he has never set foot in and cannot visit soon. Hafner, 33, is serving 20 years for threatening public officials in New Jersey, where he grew up. Now in his ...