North Dakota Prints Primary Ballot with Three Parties on Front, Libertarians on the Back

North Dakota holds its primary on June 12. North Dakota is an open primary state. In the secrecy of the voting booth, a voter decides which party’s primary to vote in.

Four qualified parties are printed on the June 12 ballots. As the picture in this article shows, the front of the ballot has the Democratic, Republican, and Constitution Parties. The Libertarian Party column is on the back of the ballot.

This is especially unfair because the Libertarian Party nominees for statewide office (other than President) cannot appear on the November ballot, unless at least 300 voters choose to vote in the Libertarian Party primary, and vote for the party’s unopposed nominees. Chances are most voters will vote in one of the major party primaries before they even notice that there is another party on the back, and by then it will be too late, because a voter can only vote in one party’s primary.

The Constitution Party doesn’t have any candidates on the primary ballot. It completed the petition to become a qualified party just so it would be on the November ballot for President, so one would think that since there are no Constitution Party nominees on the primary ballot, the Secretary of State, if he had to design the ballot that way, would have put the Constitution Party on the back, not the Libertarian Party. The Libertarian Party has primary candidates for U.S. House, Governor, and Public Service Commissioner.


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  2. Vote on both sides – listed at the bottom front — and NOT at the T-O-P front ???

    Standard Evil MORONS making voter instructions — in a LOW population State with just enough moron robot party hacks ???

    Where is that Democracy Model Election Law — to be forced into the skulls of EVIL morons in ALL States ???

  3. “Byron Sanford Says:
    June 6th, 2012 at 7:49 pm

    What an outrage.”

    This is an outrage indeed. I bet that they did this on purpose.

    “Jim Riley Says:
    June 7th, 2012 at 10:11 am

    If North Dakota used an Open Primary, this would not be a problem.”

    Having an open primary would create a whole new set of problems.

  4. Lottery system to decide the order of parties on the ballot. Not alphabetical order, ranking of voters from top to bottom or any other criteria.

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