State:
North Dakota

Capital:
Bismarck

Population:
~762,062

Admitted to the Union:
November 2, 1889

Nickname(s):
The Peace Garden State

Capitol Building:
600 E Boulevard Ave
Dept 110
Bismarck, ND 58505

Government Division for Elections:
Secretary of State
State of North Dakota
600 E Boulevard Avenue Dept 108
Bismarck ND 58505-0500

Telephone: 701-328-2900
Toll Free: 800-352-0867
Fax: 701-328-2992

E-mail: soselect@nd.gov

Number of Electors:
3

Districts:

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State:
North Dakota

Capital:
Bismarck

Population:
~762,062

Admitted to the Union:
November 2, 1889

Nickname(s):
The Peace Garden State

Capitol Building:
600 E Boulevard Ave
Dept 110
Bismarck, ND 58505

Government Division for Elections:
Secretary of State
State of North Dakota
600 E Boulevard Avenue Dept 108
Bismarck ND 58505-0500

Telephone: 701-328-2900
Toll Free: 800-352-0867
Fax: 701-328-2992

E-mail: soselect@nd.gov

Number of Electors:
3

Districts:

The truth about North Dakota when voting in a general election for President of the United States:

The party state committee shall set the place and time of the state party convention to be held in each general election year. Subject to party rules and bylaws, the state party convention may nominate the legal number of qualified electors for its party for the offices of presidential electors.

Presidential electors shall meet at one p.m. in the office of the governor in the state capitol on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December next following their appointments by election for the purpose of casting their ballots as members of the electoral college. The secretary of state shall notify the electors of the date of the meeting. If a vacancy exists in the office of an elector for any reason, the electors present at the meeting shall first proceed to fill such vacancy by ballot by a plurality of the votes. When all the electors appear, or the vacancies have been filled as provided in this section, they shall proceed to perform the duties required of them by the constitution and laws of the United States.

This other vote known as the electoral vote takes place on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December in each of the fifty (50) states.  The time of day when the electors gather to conduct this vote may vary from state to state, but the electoral vote happens on the same day in every state, the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December.  Another interesting point to mention: this electoral vote is weeks after we the people have already cast a so-called vote.

What happens to these electoral votes?  Each state has a certain number of electoral votes associated with their state.  There are a total of five-hundred and thirty-eight (538) electoral votes to be exact, and only a total of two-hundred and seventy (270) of these electoral votes are required to determine the person who will become President of the United States.

Knowing the number of electors associated with each of the States, it is mathematically possible to have only eleven (11) states determine who will become the President of the United States.

The following eleven states add up to the two-hundred and seventy (270) electoral votes needed to determine who becomes President of the United States:

California (55 electoral votes)
Texas (38 electoral votes)
New York (29 electoral votes)
Florida (29 electoral votes)
Illinois (20 electoral votes)
Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes)
Ohio (18 electoral votes)
Georgia (16 electoral votes)
Michigan (16 electoral votes)
North Carolina (15 electoral votes)
New Jersey (14 electoral votes)

This next fact may disappoint those of you who reside and vote in North Dakota.

If these eleven (11) states end up having their electoral votes casted for the same candidate, the remaining thirty-nine (39) states would not matter at all.  So… that vote you casted in the general election in November as a citizen… what was the purpose of your vote?  The answer: NOTHING (when these eleven states have an electoral outcome as such) !!!

The time is NOW to understand that our country does not have a voting process in place whereby every citizen who wants to cast a vote is able to cast a vote and to then have his or her vote be accurately counted towards choosing the person who will become the next President of the United States.