FARGO – The North Dakota Democratic-NPL has announced that voters may now request a ballot for the Democratic Presidential Primary.

Ballots will start being mailed out on Feb. 20 and must be received by March 30 at noon. Ballots requested before Feb. 7 will go out on Feb. 20, and requests after Feb. 7 will be fulfilled as they come in.

The North Dakota Democratic-NPL is working with the Merriman River Group to facilitate the primary.

Any qualified North Dakota voter or any person who will have met all the qualifications of a voter at the next general election, and who has completed a form declaring they wish to participate as a Democrat, is qualified to vote in the party-run primary.

The Democratic-NPL is working with tribal leadership to have in-person voting locations available on North Dakota’s reservations with dates and times to be determined.

Candidates who will appear on the ballot are: Joseph Biden Jr., Eban Cambridge, Stephen Lyons, Jason Palmer, Armando “Mando” Perez-Serrato, Dean Phillips , Cenk Uygur and Marianne Williamson.

North Dakota will send 20 delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The primary vote will determine the proportion of delegates pledged to each presidential candidate. Delegates to the National Convention will be elected at the North Dakota Democratic-NPL State Convention in Fargo on April 4-7.