On November 8, North Dakota Representative Corey Mock (D-Grand Forks) was re-elected. He has been trying to improve the ballot access laws in his state. Last year he introduced a bill to repeal the law that requires a certain minimum of votes in a party’s primary before it can nominate candidates. That law is so severe, concerning state legislative elections, that no minor party nominee for legislature has been on the November ballot in North Dakota since 1976. The 2015 bill passed all committees but was defeated on the House floor.

Mock has said that he will try again in 2017 to repeal the law. No other state has a minimum vote in a primary for a ballot-listed candidate to be deemed nominated. In the past, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Oklahoma had such laws, but they have all been repealed.

Here is his wikipedia page.