On April 10, Americans Elect turned in its last batch of signatures in North Dakota, to obtain status as a political party. On April 11 the Libertarian Party turned in its signatures. Also on April 11, the Constitution Party turned in its signatures. North Dakota requires 7,000 signatures. Because there is no voter registration at all in North Dakota, there is no list of registered voters for the state to check the petition. Instead the state selects a few names from each petition and mails them a test piece of postal mail. Assuming the post office doesn’t return the state’s mailing as undeliverable, the signature is considered valid. Statistical sampling is used for this process. Americans Elect submitted 9,600. The Libertarian Party submitted 8,000, and it is thought that the Constitution Party also submitted 8,000.

The North Dakota Secretary of State has given permission to Americans Elect to avoid a government primary. Therefore, at the June 12 open primary, the primary ballots will probably list candidates of the Republican, Democratic, Constitution, and Libertarian Parties. Each party has its own primary party column. The voter decides in the secrecy of the voting booth, which party’s primary ballot to use. Americans Elect will not be printed on the primary ballot because it doesn’t desire to run candidates for any office in 2012 other than President and Vice-President. Americans Elect will be the first ballot-qualified party in North Dakota since the primary was instituted in 1905, to not participate in the primary.

Parties that are not ballot-qualified in North Dakota may still place their presidential nominee on the November ballot, with the party label, if they submit 4,000 signatures by early September.