Subd. 3. Nonpartisan offices; nominees. The candidates for each office on the state and county nonpartisan primary ballot receiving the highest and the next highest number of votes shall be the nominees for that office. (When more than one individual is to be elected to the same nonpartisan office, the number of nominees shall be equal to twice the number of individuals to be elected, and that number of candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be the nominees for that office.)
Minnesota Statutes, chapter 204D.08
Subd. 6. State and county nonpartisan primary ballot.
No candidate whose name is placed on the state and county nonpartisan primary ballot shall be designated or identified as the candidate of any political party or in any other manner except as expressly provided by law.
How misguided and pathetic is any law that would prohibit candidates from identifying themselves to the voters?!!!