Thank you for visiting the website, we haven’t had written content in some time but we do have a primary election coming up in North Dakota on June 9^th and also the general elections on November 23^rd. I get all of my information from Ballotpedia and then I just search for things from there. They have a lot of excellent information so please use them a resource. They’re like us but with a budget and talented staff members.

There are a lot of local elections coming up and you should definitely be informed about them and Ballotpedia and the North Dakota Secretary of State website can help you find them. I can’t cover all of them so I’m going to talk about some state elections and ballot measures here.

The first thing is constitutional measure one which would make it a requirement that constitutional amendments in North Dakota have a single subject. The Secretary of State would determine if the bill had a single subject or not. This is a complex issue because I am not a constitutional lawyer and many states already have these laws in place and seem to get along just fine. On one hand this could be a plus for voters to more clearly understand issues they are voting on. On the other hand, I agree with the dissension from the League of Women Voters of North Dakota that it could be used as a tool against citizen initiatives that have been working fine for years. Don’t fix what isn’t broken. State Senator David Hogue (R-38) says, “The single subject rule helps limit the content and complexity of constitutional amendments by holding the drafter and sponsors to focus on a single subject that is readily understandable by the voters. … A second reason to limit proposed constitutional measures to a single subject relates to avoiding confusion and outright deception of voters. The single subject rule prohibits the so-called ‘bait and switch’ tactic. What I mean by that is some proponents of measures draft lengthy measures that have broad-based appeal in the introductory pages, e.g., a measure to help veterans, but much later on in the measure the proponents “switch” to the primary objective of the measure. Again, because the overwhelming majority of voters are not reading the measure in its entirety, I argue it’s unfair to switch subjects in the same measure.” I do hope that is the actual aim of the bill and that this not some other attempt at law-fare by Republicans. I will be voting no on the measure.

Then we have the US Congressional Candidate Primary. You are not electing this person yet this is the election to get them on the ballot. North Dakota has open primaries so we can vote in both the Democratic and Republican primaries which is an important thing to take into consideration. Julie Fedorchak, the Skinwalker endorsed by Donald Trump, is seeking re-election but she has an opponent on the ballot, Alex Balazs. He is a veteran with 25 years of experience and was a planning manager for the US State Department. He has promised to hold in person town hall meetings and was endorsed by the Republican Party of North Dakota. I’m not going to hold out hope that he or a Democrat will be elected yet, but I think we’ll see that Fedorchak’s support is waning.

There are other primaries all around the state and for many offices so please get involved! You can find the list of upcoming elections, in North Dakota on Ballotpedia here: https://ballotpedia.org/North_Dakota_elections,_2026

I will have more upcoming articles as we get closer to the general election. Spoiler alert, I’m probably not going to vote for any republican.