North Dakota Century Code Title 61. Waters § 61-24-03. Election of directors of the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District

A director of the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District must be nominated and elected in each county in the district. Any person who is a resident and qualified elector of the county who aspires to the office of director of the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District shall, before four p.m. of the sixty-fourth day before any primary election preceding a general election at which a director of the district is to be elected, present to the county auditor a petition giving that person's name, post-office address, the title of the office “Director of the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District”, and containing the signatures of not less than fifty nor more than three hundred qualified electors of the county to which each signer has added the signer's residence with street number, if any, and the date of signing.

The petition must be accompanied by an affidavit substantially as follows:

Upon receipt of the petition, the county auditor shall without fee place the name of the aspirant on the no-party primary election ballot as a candidate for the aforesaid office of director. The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes if more than two are running are nominated.

The names of the candidates so nominated at the primary election must be placed on the no-party ballot at the ensuing general election and the candidate receiving the highest number of votes is elected.

At the primary and general elections, votes must be canvassed, returned certified, and certificates of nomination and election issued in the manner provided by law for the nomination and election of county officers.