I think there were questions about it. I don’t remember the exact details, but something about not having signed up in time to qualify for a write-in line on the ballot. Anyway, the responsible official in Alaska decided that it was OK.
But the real problem was that the party didn’t back the winner who was running as a Republican. Lisa Murkowski was kept on with her chairmanship of an important committee, giving the impression that she could bring a lot of pork back to Alaska, as her father had earlier. And somebody evidently paid off the Eskimo chiefs, who told their tribal members to vote unanimously for Lisa.
She ran as an Independent, and splits from the party on important votes whenever she feels like it.
I disagreed with them leaving her with seniority and on whatever committees she was on but she may have talents with older men ~ kinda' like that Petraeus girlfriend we've been reading about ~ ability to get under a desk perhaps!