May 8—GRAND FORKS — Roland Riemers said he will not be filing with the Federal Election Commission before the June 11 election.

Riemers,

who's running in the Democratic primary for North Dakota's U.S. House seat

, said in a statement that he mailed a notice to the FEC that he will not be filing the pre-election campaign disclosure forms, unlike the other candidates. Candidates running for federal office have to file campaign finance reports with the FEC after they've raised or spent $5,000. If they are required to report, reports are due quarterly and 12 days before an election.

"The whole 197 pages of the FEC set of rules and guidelines are so confusing and contradictory that a candidate could spend the entire election period just trying to figure out the campaign rules," Riemers said in the release. He said that would follow other FEC guidelines for donations, expenditures and burial expenses.

Of the candidates running for office, only Riemers and Sharlet Mohr have not filed with the FEC. The other five have filed and reported

raising $1.69 million in the first quarter of the year.

Once the $5,000 threshold is reached, a candidate has to designate a principal campaign committee within 15 days. The committee handles the finances of the campaign and needs to have a bank account, tax identification number and treasurer before being able to accept contributions and expenditures. Once a principal campaign committee is designated by a candidate, it has to file with the FEC within 10 days.

Riemers said in the release that these additional requirements may be unconstitutional in his view, since they add additional requirements not in the Constitution.

"Neither the federal or state governments can change or expand these clear constitutional requirements," he said. "The FEC rules do in fact greatly expand the requirements for U.S. representative."