§ 16.1-11-30 — Separate section on primary election ballot required for each political party

party.
Any party that had printed on the ballot at the last preceding presidential election the names
of a set of presidential electors pledged to the election of the party's candidates for president
and vice president or a candidate for governor and those candidates for presidential electors or
governor received at least five percent of the total vote cast for presidential electors or the office
of governor within this state at that election; any party that had printed on the ballot at the last
preceding nonpresidential election a candidate for attorney general or secretary of state, and
the candidate received at least five percent of the total vote cast for the office the candidate was
seeking at the election; or any party that has organized according to all the requirements of
chapter 16.1-03 must be provided with a separate section on primary election ballots.
Any other political organization is entitled to endorse candidates or have candidates petition
to be included on the primary ballot in a separate section of the consolidated primary election
ballot, if a petition signed by at least seven thousand qualified electors of this state is filed with
the secretary of state before four p.m. of the sixty-fourth day before a primary or special
election, naming the political organization, stating the platform principles of the party, and
requesting the names of its candidates to be included on the state's primary ballot in a separate
section. Political organizations that are granted ballot access under this section are allowed
ballot access only for those offices for which the organization has identified candidates.
Regardless of the means by which the petition is delivered, the original must be in the
possession of the secretary of state before four p.m. on the sixty-fourth day prior to a primary or
special election. Candidates of that party are entitled to the same rights and privileges as those
of other parties. Petitions circulated according to this section must be filed with the secretary of
state in accordance with section 1-01-50.
A political organization that had printed on the ballot at the last preceding presidential
election the names of a set of presidential electors pledged to the election of the party's
candidates for president and vice president or a candidate for governor and those candidates
for presidential electors or governor received at least five percent of the total vote cast for
presidential electors or the office of governor within this state at that election, and any political
organization that has printed on the ballot at the last preceding nonpresidential election a
candidate for attorney general or secretary of state, and the candidate received at least five
percent of the total vote cast for the office the candidate was seeking at the election are entitled
to organize according to the requirements of chapter 16.1-03.