Section 2.        Duties:

                        A.        To establish and maintain a state headquarters.

                        B.        To do any and all other acts necessary to accomplish the program

                                    and policies of the State Convention.

Section 3.        Meetings: The District Chairmen, which make up the State Committee, shall meet on or before July first of each odd-numbered year and organize in accordance with state law. The State Committee shall hold in addition thereto at least two meetings each year at the call of the State Chairman and at such other times as ten members, in writing, request the State Chairman that a meeting be held.  The District Chairmen, as members of the State Committee, shall keep the State Chairman fully advised of the political conditions and requirements in their respective legislative districts and shall look after the Party’s interest at all elections.  Ex-officio members of the State Committee shall be the State Finance Chairman, all North Dakota Republican members of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives, all Republican Executive State Officials, the immediate past State Chairman, State Chairman of the Young Republicans of North Dakota, and the State Chairman of the North Dakota College Republicans.

Section 4.        The State Republican Committee shall be divided into four regions each with its own chairman elected at the Round-Up held in a non-election year.  The Regions shall meet twice during the year.  The regions will consist of the following Districts based on the 2001 reapportionment of the Legislature:

                        A.        Northwest Region: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,38,40

                        B.        Northeast Region: 10,15,16,17,18,19,23,29,42,43

                        C.        Southeast Region: 11,12,13,20,21,22,24,25,26,27,41,44,45,46

                        D.        Southwest Region: 8,14,28,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,39,47

Section 5.        Officers: The officers of the State Committee shall be a State Chairman, Vice Chairman, Vice Chairwoman, Secretary, and Treasurer.  All officers shall be entitled to vote on all questions coming before the State Committee for consideration, except the State Chairman who shall vote only in the case of a tie.  The officers elected need not be members of such committee.  A vacancy on the State Committee, other than a District Chairman, shall be filled by a majority of the State Committee.  The State Committee shall have the power to provide compensation for the office of the State Chairman on a part-time or full-time basis.

Section 6.        Quorum: A majority of the duly elected members of the State Committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at all meetings.

Section 7.        Notice of Meetings: Fifteen days’ written or printed notice of all meetings shall be given by mail to each member of the State Committee.

Section 8.        Duties of Officers:

A.        State Chairman: The State Chairman shall preside at all meetings of the State Committee.  In addition to all the powers, rights, privileges, and duties conferred and imposed upon him by law, he shall exercise and discharge those conferred on him by the Rules and Modes of Procedure of the State Committee and all resolutions adopted in conformity therewith.  The State Chairman shall be the executive officer of the Republican Party in the State of North Dakota.  He shall appoint all standing and special committees of the North Dakota Republican Party with the approval of the Executive Committee.

B.        Vice Chairman: The Vice Chairman, in the absence of the State Chairman, shall preside at all meetings of the State Committee. When a vacancy occurs in the office of State Chairman, caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, the Vice Chairman of the State Committee shall be the Acting Chairman until the next meeting of the State Committee if the State Chairman is a woman.

C.        Vice Chairwoman: The duties of the Vice Chairwoman are to assist the State Chairman, act as liaison between the Republican Party and the Republican Women of North Dakota, and to perform such other duties as the State Chairman may from time to time request.  She is also charged with building, developing, and promoting Republicanism in every form in North Dakota. When a vacancy occurs in the office of State Chairman, caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, the Vice-Chairwoman of the State Committee shall be the Acting Chairman until the next meeting of the State Committee if the State Chairman is a man.

D.        Secretary: The Secretary of the State Committee shall attend the meetings of the State Committee and keep the minutes of the proceedings in a book provided for that purpose.  The record of said minutes shall be certified and attested by the Secretary and delivered into the hands of the State Chairman and copies mailed to the District Chairmen.  The Secretary shall mail copies of the State Committee and the Executive Committee minutes to all legislators that request to have their names placed on the mailing list for minutes.

E.         Treasurer: The Treasurer of the State Committee shall be the custodian of all moneys belonging to the State Committee and shall pay out the same only on the direction of the State Chairman.  He shall keep a strict accounting of all moneys received and paid out with the date of such receipt and payments, from whom received, to whom paid and for what purpose, which account at all times shall be accessible to the State Chairman.  At the end of his term of office, he shall turn over to his successor all moneys, books, and papers of the State Committee remaining in his hands.

Section 9.        Conflict of Interest: The nomination, endorsement, or filing as a candidate for any state or federal office by an officer of the State Committee, or by the National Committeeman or National Committeewoman, will automatically constitute his or her resignation from such office.

ARTICLE IV - EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Section 1.        Purpose: The Executive Committee shall be responsible for the execution of the policy of the State Committee with relation to the political organization and management of the Republican Party within the state and shall guide and coordinate political activities and campaigns throughout the state.

Section 2.        Membership: The Executive Committee of the State Committee shall consist of the State Chairman, the Vice Chairman, Vice Chairwoman, Secretary, Treasurer, National Committeeman, National Committeewoman, the Party’s floor leaders in the House of Representatives and Senate, and a representative of State Party Elected Officials together with four District Chairmen to be selected by the State Committee.  Vacancies shall be filled at a State Committee meeting upon fifteen days’ notice.

Section 3.        Meetings: Meetings of the Executive Committee shall be called by the State Chairman upon notice to each member of the Executive Committee.

Section 4.        Voting: A majority vote of the members of the Executive Committee shall be required for the transaction of business at all meetings.

Section 5.        Duties:

A.        To be responsible for carrying into effect the policies and programs promoted and promulgated by the State Republican Conventions and of the State Committee.

B.        To approve the State Chairman’s appointments of standing committees on (1) Research, (2) Organization, (3) Communication, Finance and Auditing, (5) Campaign, and any other necessary committees.

C.        To do any and all other acts necessary to accomplish the programs and policies of the State Committee and State Convention.

D.        To establish a North Dakota Republican Party Federal Committee which shall be responsible for raising and spending money for federal candidates.  This Federal Committee shall be the only State Party Committee which shall raise money for Federal candidates and shall follow the laws and rules of the Federal Election Commission.

ARTICLE V - EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINUTES

Minutes of all Executive Committee meetings will be circulated to the District Chairmen for them to comment on and review at the next meeting of the State Committee.

ARTICLE VI - DISTRICT COMMITTEE

Section 1.        Organization: The Republican Precinct Committeemen elected or appointed as provided by law together with the Republican nominees for the members of the Legislative Assembly of that party and the officers of the District Committee shall constitute the District Committee of the Republican Party.  The District Committee upon a majority vote of its members may appoint any former member of the Legislative Assembly as an ex-officio and voting member of such District Committee.

(Revised December 6, 1994)

Section 2.  Meetings: The District Committee shall meet in every odd-numbered year within fifteen days after the precinct caucus.  Such precinct caucus is required on or before May 15 following each General Election.  The day, hour, and site of the District Committee meeting shall be set by the existing District Committee Chairman.  The District Committee shall have such other meetings as are duly called by the Chairman of the District Committee and at such other times as five members of the District Committee in writing request the Chairman of the District Committee that a meeting be held.

(Revised December 6, 1994)

Section 3.  Officers: The officers of the District Committee shall be a Chairman, a Vice Chairman, a Vice Chairwoman, a Secretary, and a Treasurer.  The District Committee shall select an Executive Committee consisting of from five to

eighteen persons chosen from the District Committee.  The Chairman, Vice Chairman, Vice Chairwoman, Secretary and Treasurer of the District Committee shall be members and officers of the Executive Committee.  The Party’s nominees for and members of the Legislative Assembly shall also be members of the Executive Committee.  The five to eighteen person membership limitation shall include the officers of the Executive Committee and the Party’s nominees for and members of the Legislative Assembly.  Any officer of the District Committee may be removed by a two-thirds vote of the

members of the District Committee at a duly called meeting of the District Committee.

Section 4.        Rules and Modes: The District Committee shall have the authority to adopt its own Rules and Modes of Procedure so long as they do not conflict with law or the Rules and Modes of Procedure of the State Committee.

Section 5.        Duties: To do all other acts necessary to accomplish the programs and policies of the State Committee, the State Convention, and the District Convention.

ARTICLE VII - PROXIES

Proxies are permissible at all meetings except at a precinct caucus.  However, all persons exercising proxies shall be residents of the precinct or district which the person giving the proxy represents, and shall have legally-signed authority.  Each authorized person shall have one vote.

ARTICLE VIII - CONFLICT OF LAW

Any of these Rules and Modes of Procedure contrary to law shall be inoperative to the extent it is so contrary.

ARTICLE IX - ROBERT’S RULES OF ORDER

All matters of procedures of meetings and conventions shall be based on and governed by Robert’s Rules of Order.

ARTICLE X - AMENDMENTS

Section 1.        These Rules and Modes of Procedure may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the State Committee present, provided fifteen days’ notice has been given to each member of any proposed amendment.

Section 2.        These Rules and Modes of Procedure may be temporarily suspended during any convention of the Republican Party of North Dakota by a vote of two-thirds of the elected delegates.

RULES

NORTH DAKOTA REPUBLICAN PARTY

STATE ENDORSING CONVENTIONS

RULE NO. 1

CALL OF THE CONVENTION

90 days prior to the State Republican Endorsing Convention, the State Chairman and the State Executive Committee shall issue to the State Republican Committee the Call of the Convention.  The Call of the Convention shall include the purpose, date, place, and the time of the State Republican Endorsing Convention.

RULE NO. 2

DEFINITION OF “LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS”

Delegates and alternates to the State Republican Endorsing Convention shall be allotted by Legislative District as defined by the North Dakota Century Code.

RULE NO. 3

DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES

Section 1.        During the period between January 1 and March 1 of an even year the District Chairman shall call a convention for the purpose of electing delegates and alternates to the State Republican Endorsing Convention.

Section 2.        Delegates and alternates to the State Republican Endorsing Convention must be of voting age (18) by the time the convention is called to order and must have lived in the District for 30 days.  In addition delegates and alternates must have voted or affiliated with the Republican Party in the last general election or intend to vote or affiliate with the Republican Party in the next general election.

Section 3.        No American citizen eligible to vote shall be denied from participating as a delegate or alternate for reasons of sex, race, religion, color, age, or national origin.

Section 4.        The formula allocating delegates and alternates the State Republican Endorsing Convention is as follows:

                        One delegate for every 300 votes cast for the Republican Candidate

                        for President in the previous election.

                        One delegate for every 300 votes cast for the Republican Candidate

                        for Governor in the previous election.

                        One delegate for each Republican Legislator elected from the District.

                        50% bonus of delegates for meeting the District’s financial

                        quota in the first year of the biennium.

                        50% bonus of delegates for meeting the District’s financial

                        quota in the second year of the biennium.

                        Each Legislative District will be entitled to at least five delegates.

                        Alternates to the State Republican Endorsing Convention will be chosen

                        in the same manner.

RULE NO. 4

CERTIFICATE OF DELEGATES

No later than two weeks before the opening of the State Republican Endorsing Convention, the chairman of each Legislative District Committee shall forward a list of duly elected delegates and alternates to the State Chairman.

RULE NO. 5

TEMPORARY ROLL

The names of the delegates and alternates listed by the District Chairman shall be placed upon the temporary roll of the convention by the State Chairman.

No person on the temporary roll of the convention and whose right to be seated as a delegate or alternate is being contested shall be entitled to vote on the convention floor until by a vote of the convention the contest as to such person has been finally decided and such person is permanently seated, except that any such person may be accorded the right to so vote, except in matters involving the credentials of that person by an affirmative vote of a majority of the State Committee on the Committee on Credentials.

RULE NO. 6

CONTESTING DELEGATE SEATING

Section 1.        Notice of contests shall state the grounds for contesting the seating of a delegate or delegates and shall be filed no later than two days before the scheduled meeting of the Committee on Credentials.  The notice of contest shall be filed with the Secretary of the Republican State Committee and shall be sent simultaneously via registered mail to the delegate or delegates being contested.

Section 2.        A challenge to the seating of a delegate or delegates can only be made by a resident of the Legislative District in question.

RULE NO. 7

ADMISSION TO THE CONVENTION HALL

Section 1.        Only those persons wearing badges identifying them as delegates, officers of the convention, Republican statewide office holders, Republican US Senator, Republican US House member, pages, sergeants of arms, special guests of the convention, candidate floor managers or members of the media shall be admitted to the convention hall designated for delegates.

Section 2.        Those persons wearing badges identifying them as alternates will have seats at a designated spot on the floor of the convention.

Section 3.        The rest of the convention hall will be open for guests to observe the convention as seating permits.

RULE NO. 8

STATE ENDORSING CONVENTION COMMITTEES

Section 1.        The Committee on Credentials.  Each Region will be entitled to two members each on the committee to be chosen by the Regional Chairman.  The State Chairman will appoint the Committee Chairman to be confirmed by the State Executive Committee.

                        The Credentials Committee will certify all delegates and alternates to the State Republican Endorsing Convention before the State Republican Endorsing Convention conducts any official business.  The Committee will announce the number of delegates certified to vote at the beginning of each ballot taken during the State Republican Endorsing Convention.  The Credentials Committee will also resolve any disputes over credentials that may come before the

State Republican Endorsing Convention.

Section 2.        The Committee on Resolutions.  Each District Chairman will name one member to the Committee on Resolutions. The Resolutions Committee will be co-chaired by one co-chairman named by the House Floor Leader and one co-chairman named by the Senate Floor Leader.

                        The Resolutions Committee will propose resolutions on any issue deemed appropriate before the Convention.

                        Resolutions must be presented to the Committee at least 24 hours before the Committee convenes for its first session.  Resolutions presented after that time must be requested in writing by one delegate from six Legislative Districts.

Section 3.        The Committee on Rules.  Each Region will be entitled to one member on the committee to be chosen by the Regional Chairman.  The State Chairman will appoint the Committee Chairman to be confirmed by the State Executive Committee.

                        The Rules Committee will establish the rules for the next State Republican

Endorsing Convention.  The Committee will also resolve any major disputes in the rules which may come before the Convention.

Section 4.        The Committee on Permanent Organization.  Each Region will have two members each chosen by the Regional Chairman.   The Chairmen of this Committee shall be the National Committeeman and the National Committeewoman.

                        The Committee shall nominate the permanent Chairman of the Convention and other officers the convention shall need.  In addition, in a Presidential year, the Committee shall act as the nominating committee for a slate of delegates and alternates to attend the National Republican Convention.  Finally, the Committee shall nominate the electors to represent the Republican Candidate for President on the North Dakota election ballot.

RULE NO. 9

MINORITY REPORTS: AMENDMENTS

Section 1.        In order for a minority report of a committee report to be considered on the floor of the Convention, the minority report must receive the support of  25% of the members of the committee.

Section 2.        No minority report pertaining to the report of the Committee on Credentials shall be in order.

RULE NO. 10

ORDER OF BUSINESS

The Order of Business of the State Republican Endorsing Convention shall be as follows:

            1.         Call to Order by the State Chairman or the State Chairman’s designee.

            2.         Election of a Temporary Chairman and Temporary Secretary.

            3.         Appointment of Committee on Credentials by the Temporary Chairman.

            4.         Report of Credentials Committee and seating of delegates.

            5.         Election of Permanent Chairman and Secretary.

            6.         Accept the Rules Committee report.

            7.         Endorsement of Statewide officers, National Committee members,

                        National Convention delegates, and National electors with the order of

                        endorsement to be at the discretion of the State Executive Committee.

            8.         Accept the Resolution Committee report.

RULE NO. 11

CANDIDATES ENDORSED BY THE

STATE REPUBLICAN ENDORSING CONVENTION

Section 1.        National Committeeman-National Committeewoman.  In a Presidential election year the State Republican Endorsing Convention will nominate and elect a National Committeeman and National Committeewoman for the purpose of representing the North Dakota Republican Party on the Republican National Committee.

                        The National Committeeman-National Committeewoman in order to have their name placed in nomination must submit a written petition signed by one delegate from five Legislative Districts.

                        The National Committeeman-National Committeewoman shall serve a term of four years.

Section 2.        Delegates-Alternates to the Republican National Convention.  In a Presidential election year, the Committee on Permanent Organization will present a slate of delegates and alternates to the State Republican Endorsing Convention.  Nominations may be made from the floor.  Only those persons who applied to the committee, but were not nominated as a delegate will be eligible to be nominated from the floor.  In the event nominations are made from the floor, a nominee must receive a majority of the votes and finish in the top number needed for delegates to be elected.  The same procedure will be followed for alternates to the Republican National Convention.

Section 3.        National Electors.  In a Presidential election year, the Committee on Permanent Organization will present a slate of three electors to represent the Republican Candidate for President on the North Dakota General Election Ballot.  Nominations may be made from the floor.  In the event nominations are made from the floor, a nominee must receive a majority of the votes and finish in the top three in order to be elected.

Section 4.        Statewide Officers.  The State Republican Endorsing Convention shall endorse statewide candidates to run for office that will be on the North Dakota General Election Ballot.

RULE NO. 12

CREDENTIALS

Issues regarding credentials shall be presented to the Credentials Committee.  Adoption by the Convention of a Credentials Committee report of certified delegates shall determine the number of votes necessary to constitute a majority.

The Credentials Committee will report to the Convention any changes in the total number of certified delegates before the conduct of business at each session of the Convention and before the vote of endorsement for any office for which two or more candidates have been nominated.

The Chair of each District delegation shall have authority to fill a vacancy in that District’s certified delegation from among its registered alternates or other electors.

RULE NO. 13

NOMINATING

Section 1.        In order for a Statewide Candidate to have his/her name placed in nomination he/she must have signatures from one delegate from six Legislative Districts.

Section 2.        After the Convention Chairman has opened the floor for nominations, the Convention Secretary will call the roll of the Districts for the purpose of making a nomination.  If there is only one candidate for nomination who has the required support as spelled out in Section 1 of Rule No. 8, a motion to nominate for such office by acclamation shall be in order.

Section 3.        Nominating speeches for each candidate shall be limited to one nominating speech or resolution of support, and seconding speeches, all of which shall not exceed a total of ten minutes.  Candidates may be nominated or seconded by persons who are not delegates to the State Republican Endorsing Convention or are not of voting age.  All nominators must be present in the hall.  No video nominations will be allowed.

Section 4.        If the office is contested the candidate will be allowed to address the convention for five minutes before his name is put in nomination.  In the uncontested offices the candidate will be allowed five minutes only to address the convention for an acceptance speech.

Section 5.        Non-delegates may participate in the demonstrations following the nomination of a candidate.  It will be the responsibility of the candidate to make sure the floor is cleared of all non-delegates once the demonstration has concluded.

RULE NO. 14

BALLOTING

Section 1.        Roll call votes shall be conducted by secret ballot.  Ballots shall be furnished by the Convention.  Each certified delegate shall be entitled to cast one vote.  The delegate or alternate designated by the District Chairmen must be present on the floor of the Convention to cast their vote.  No proxy voting will be allowed.

Section 2.        The Convention Secretary shall call the roll for the vote in numerical order.

Section 3.        The Chairman of each District delegation shall report the results of the District balloting in writing on the vote report furnished by the Secretary of the Convention.  The Chairman shall sign the vote report.  The signed vote report and all ballots shall be placed in the report envelope and the report envelope shall be delivered to the Convention Secretary.

Section 4.        When the Convention Secretary has received the vote report of every District, the Convention Secretary shall call the roll of the Districts.  As each District is called, the Chairman of the District shall announce the District’s vote.  After the announcement of each District’s vote, the Convention Secretary shall release the District’s vote report to tellers appointed by the Convention Chairman for tallying.  In the event of a variance between the vote report and the vote as announced by the District Chairman, the vote report shall be the official count unless changed by a polling of the delegation.  The Convention Secretary shall repeat the vote and the same shall be recorded.

Section 5.        Before the next District is called, any delegate may demand a polling of his or her delegation.  If such a demand is made, the Convention Secretary shall poll the delegation individually and announce and record the vote before proceeding to the next District.  The Convention Secretary shall not release the results of any vote report until after the same has been announced by the District Chairman.

Section 6.        No delegate or alternate shall be bound by any attempt of any District to impose the unit rule on the delegation.

Section 7.        If two rounds of balloting have been completed, and no candidate has achieved a majority, the candidate with the lowest tally on any subsequent ballot shall be eliminated from future ballots.  At no time may this section be used to reduce the number of candidates on the ballot to less than two.

Section 8.        The balloting on candidates shall continue until a candidate shall have received a majority vote of the certified convention delegates.  If a majority is reached during the announcement and tallying of votes, the Convention Secretary shall continue the calling and counting until every District has announced its vote and all votes are recorded.

At the conclusion of the balloting during which a candidate has received a majority vote of the certified delegates, the Convention Chair shall declare the candidate endorsed and the official candidate of the North Dakota Republican Party at the Primary Election to be held in June.

RULE NO. 15

LIMITATION OF DEBATE

The Convention Chairman may prescribe a reasonable time limit on discussion of any issue before the Convention.  Each delegate shall be limited to one four-minute statement on any issue before the Convention and a two-minute rebuttal.

RULE NO. 16

MAJORITY REQUIRED

All endorsements and other questions properly before the Convention shall be determined by a majority of the delegates certified by the Credentials Committee.

RULE NO. 17

ROBERT’S RULES OF ORDER

Except as otherwise provided herein, Robert’s Rules of Order and the North Dakota Century Code shall govern the proceedings of the State Republican Endorsing Convention.  To the extent that any conflicts exist, the Rules and Modes of Procedure of the North Dakota Republican State Committee are temporarily suspended.

RULE NO. 18

VACANCIES

In the event of the death, resignation, disqualification, or disability of any candidate for office, such a vacancy shall be filled by a special convention made up of the Republican State Committee.  The North Dakota Republican State Chairman will be responsible for calling such a Special Convention.

RULE NO. 19

SUSPENSION OF THE RULES

Any convention rule may be temporarily suspended by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of all certified delegates.

RULE NO. 20

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR WHOM DELEGATES ARE BOUND TO VOTE AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION

Candidate for whom delegates bound to vote: The delegates selected at the North Dakota

Republican Party State Convention are bound to cast their first ballots at the Republican National Convention in such a manner that each candidate at the Republican Party’s Presidential Preference Contest or Presidential Caucus receives a portion of the total votes cast by the delegates equal to the proportion received by that candidate of the total votes cast for all candidates for President at the contest.  If a candidate withdraws before the first ballot voting begins, delegates obligated to vote for that candidate on the first ballot are released from that obligation.

            RULE 21 – PRESIDENTIAL CAUCUS RULES

1. The statewide caucus results will provide for a proportional vote of the National Convention Delegates on the first ballot; i.e., a candidate receiving 40% of the statewide caucus vote would receive 40% of the convention delegate votes on the first ballot.  A candidate must receive at least 15% of the total ballots cast to be eligible to receive any of North Dakota’s National Convention Delegates.   If a 2008 Presidential Caucus candidate receives more than two-thirds of the total statewide votes cast during the 2008 North Dakota Presidential Caucus, that candidate receives all of North Dakota’s National Convention Delegates.

2. The 2008 Presidential Caucus will be held for each district on February 5, 2008 at 6:30 PM local time.  The polls shall be open for a period of 90 minutes.

3. There will be at least one voting site for each district and there can be as many for a district as needed.  The District Executive Committee will be directed to choose the site or sites.  These selections of additional sites must be completed by December 31, 2007.

4. Notice of the Presidential Caucus date, time and site shall be given in the same manner as provided for the precinct caucus in Section 16.1-03-01 of the North Dakota Century Code. – Please note you must place an ad in the county newspaper for every county in your district.

5. The District Chairman of each district shall appoint a District Presidential Caucus Chairman on or before December 1, 2007, and notify the Executive Director of the North Dakota Republican Party of that person’s name, address and phone number, fax number (if applicable) and email (if applicable).

6. The District Presidential Caucus Chair, in consultation with the District Chairman and the District Executive Committee shall appoint a Chairman for each voting site for the district.  This appointment must be made by January 15, 2008 and must be reported to the Executive Director of the North Dakota Republican Party.

7. The District Executive Committee shall determine the number and place of the voting sites for the District on or before December 31, 2007.

8. The ballot for the Presidential Caucus shall contain the names of all announced Republican Presidential candidates as of January 1, 2008 as stated by the Republican National Committee and/or the Federal Election Commission.

9. The ballot shall be prepared by Republican State Headquarters and copies provided to each District.  Each District shall make as many copies as are needed in the District.  Each ballot must be initialed by the Chairman of the Presidential Caucus Voting Site to be valid and counted.

10. Persons who are eligible to vote in North Dakota and who either voted or affiliated with the Republican Party at the 2006 General Election or intend to vote or affiliate with the Republican Party at the 2008 General Election shall be entitled to vote at the 2008 Presidential Caucus.

11. Each person may vote for only one candidate on the ballot, and any ballot voted for more than one candidate will be void.  An elector in a District may vote at any site for the District, but may only cast one vote.

12. Each District shall report their results to Republican State Headquarters by 10:00PM Central Standard Time of the day of the caucus.  A  District with more than one voting site shall compile their total District vote prior to calling in to Republican State Headquarters.

13. Voting by absentee ballot shall not be allowed.

14. Candidates or their representatives wishing to speak at a caucus shall be allowed an equal amount of time as determined by the Caucus Chairman.