The North Dakota Secretary of State says all three independent presidential petitions are valid. They are for Darrell Castle, Rocky De La Fuente, and Jill Stein. The qualified parties in North Dakota are Democratic, Libertarian, and Republican.

North Dakota doesn’t have voter registration. Therefore, there is no list to check the petition signatures against. The North Dakota Secretary of State’s office has a good sense of whether a petition seem honest. If there is any doubt, a random sample of signers are sent a postcard, and if more than a few postcards comes back with a post office notation that there is no such address, then further investigation is done. This year, for these petitions, nothing seemed amiss.