By Amy Dalrymple | Editor
“The general public does not realize how many previous months and how many hours the staff puts into getting ready for Election Day.” - Linda Chadduck, a 47-year election worker veteran in Stutsman County, on election worker training.
Paulette Neff, an election judge at the Morton Mandan Public Library, talks to a voter about their ballot during early voting on Oct. 28, 2026. (Photo by Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)
By Michael Achterling
Election workers are primed for Election Day after nearly a year of training, working primary elections and guiding tens of thousands of North Dakotans through early voting.
North Dakota voters on Tuesday will elect their sole member of the U.S. House, choose several statewide office-holders and weigh in on statewide ballot measures related to amending the constitution and providing free school meals.
Educating voters is an important part of the job for Paulette Neff, an election judge in Morton County, who has worked elections for the past 15 years.
Polls open between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m., depending on location. Polls will close at 7 p.m. local time.
LIVE COVERAGE: Watch our website today for the latest election news. We’ll post statewide results to our website as they become available tonight.
North Dakota Republican Gov. Kelly Armstrong takes a receipt to get his ballot from a poll worker at the Bismarck Event Center during early voting on Nov. 2, 2026. (Photo by Jack Dura/North Dakota Monitor)
By Jack Dura
North Dakota’s governor cast his ballot Monday, telling reporters he expects good results for Republicans in the state but not necessarily nationally.
“I think we’re doing well here. I think we have reasonable, rational legislators that have put the state on a great path,” Republican Gov. Kelly Armstrong told reporters.
Armstrong, a former congressmember, said he expects national Republicans “are going to be asking some tough questions tomorrow.” He said has friends across the country who are facing some tough races. Armstrong said he campaigned for former House Republican colleagues Tom Tiffany for Wisconsin governor, U.S. Reps. Bryan Steil in Wisconsin and Brad Finstad in Minnesota.
In Congress, Democrats are expected to take control of the House from Republicans, but the GOP-led Senate is a tossup.
Exterior of the Morton County Courthouse in Mandan on Feb. 27, 2025. (Photo by Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)
By Mary Steurer
A North Dakota judge on Monday denied Greenpeace’s request for a new trial in the case brought against the organization by the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Greenpeace will now move forward with its appeal of the $345 million judgment entered against it earlier this year, the organization announced Monday.
“Since the district court refuses to right the wrongs committed at trial, we will next appeal the many wrongly decided and unresolved errors in the case to the North Dakota Supreme Court,” Kristin Casper, general counsel for Greenpeace International, said in a statement.
Attorneys for Energy Transfer have defended the jury’s verdict and disputed Greenpeace’s claims that the court proceedings were unfair.
“Today’s order denying Greenpeace’s motion for a new trial confirms what a North Dakota jury unanimously found after a full trial: Greenpeace is responsible for the harm it caused,” Energy Transfer said in a Monday statement.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on April 9, 2026. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
By Jonathan Shorman
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, mere hours before Election Day in the midterms that will determine control of Congress, denied the Trump administration’s final attempt to force California to set aside the ballots of 20,000 people it suspects are noncitizens.
The decision marked a significant blow to President Donald Trump’s bid to control voting in the country’s most populous state and capped a whirlwind three weeks of legal war between the U.S. Department of Justice and California’s state and local election officials.
The Supreme Court’s denial also removed the possibility of a last-minute ruling that could have led to chaos if officials were forced to scramble to follow the Justice Department’s demands.
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