Shiva “Inventor of Email” Ayyadurai loses race for GOP Senate nod

Enlarge / Shiva Ayyadurai, seen here in January 2017. (credit: Boston Globe / Getty Images News)

Shiva Ayyadurai may be best known for his dubious claim to have invented email and for filing defamation lawsuits against online publications that debunked his claim. On Tuesday, Ayyadurai added to his list of non-accomplishments when Massachusetts voters denied him the Republican nomination for US Senate.

Attorney Kevin O'Connor beat Ayyadurai by a margin of 60 percent to 40 percent.

This is Ayyadurai's second failed campaign for US Senate. In 2018, he ran as an independent against Democratic incumbent Elizabeth Warren and came in third place with 3.4 percent of the vote.

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