BISMARCK - Three North Dakotans have qualified for write-in candidate status on North Dakota's statewide ballot.
The three don't include Gregg Boyer, a Barney farmer who has been campaigning for a year or more.
North Dakota law requires write-in candidates to file a certificate of write-in candidacy; otherwise, county auditors do not have to count those votes.
The deadline for filing the certificate was Tuesday. Secretary of State Al Jaeger said Boyer mailed a certificate that was postmarked Wednesday and arrived Thursday.
Those who filed are Gilbert Gimbel of Hazelton for the U.S. House, Roland Riemers of Emerado for governor and Bismarck lawyer Robert V. Bolinske for the state Supreme Court.
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Riemers has been a candidate in many past elections, including as an independent candidate for the U.S. House in 2006, Libertarian candidate for governor in 2004, independent candidate for the state House from District 43 in 2002 and in North Dakota's Democratic presidential primary in 1996.
Bolinske unsuccessfully petitioned in September to have his name on the ballot for Supreme Court but learned he would have had to file petitions in April.
