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Title 35, Title 35. Elections

14 chapters · 414 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 35414 Ch 3501, Chapter 3501 | Election Procedure; E…55 Ch 3513, Chapter 3513 | Primaries; Nominations53 Ch 3517, Chapter 3517 | Campaigns; Political …50 Ch 3505, Chapter 3505 | General And Special E…48 Ch 3599, Chapter 3599 | Offenses And Penalties46 Ch 3503, Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualificatio…35 Ch 3506, Chapter 3506 | Voting And Tabulating…24 Ch 3515, Chapter 3515 | Recount; Contest Of E…20 Ch 3511, Chapter 3511 | Armed Services Absent…19 Ch 3521, Chapter 3521 | Congressional Districts19 Ch 3519, Chapter 3519 | Initiative; Referendum16 Ch 3509, Chapter 3509 | Absent Voter's Ballots12 Ch 3523, Chapter 3523 | Amendments To United …12 Ch 3504, Chapter 3504 | Presidential Ballots …5

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.04 Nonpartisan ballot
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On the nonpartisan ballot shall be printed the names of all nonpartisan candidates for election to the office of judge of a municipal court, county court, or court of common pleas, the office of member of a board of education, municipal or township offices for municipal corporati…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.06 Questions and issues ballot
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(A) On the questions and issues ballot shall be printed all questions and issues to be submitted at any one election together with the percentage of affirmative votes necessary for passage as required by law. Such ballot shall have printed across the top thereof, and below the st…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.061 Ohio ballot board
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(A) The Ohio ballot board, as authorized by Section 1 of Article XVI, Ohio Constitution, shall consist of the secretary of state and four appointed members. No more than two of the appointed members shall be of the same political party. One of the members shall be appointed by th…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.062 Ohio ballot board duties
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The Ohio ballot board shall do all of the following: (A) Examine, within ten days after its receipt, each written initiative petition received from the attorney general under section 3519.01 of the Revised Code to determine whether it contains only one proposed law or constitutio…

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.063 Proposed constitutional amendments - official explanation and arguments

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(A) When the general assembly adopts a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment, it may, by resolution, designate a group of members who voted in support of the resolution to prepare arguments for the proposed amendment, and a group of members who voted in opposition to th…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.07 Separate ballots for candidates, question, or issue

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(A) If the board of elections, by a unanimous vote of its members, or if the secretary of state, in the secretary of state's sole discretion, finds it impracticable to place the names of candidates for any office of a minor political subdivision in the county or the wording of an…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.071 Ballots in joint county school districts

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In the event that a school district extends into one or more counties, upon the filing of any resolution or candidate's petitions in the county containing the most populous portion of the school district, such county board of elections shall, within ten days after such filing, se…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.08 Ballot material - stubs

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(A) Ballots shall be provided by the board of elections for all general and special elections. The ballots shall be printed with black ink on No. 2 white book paper fifty pounds in weight per ream assuming such ream to consist of five hundred sheets of such paper twenty-five by t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.09 Separate ballots for each precinct and district

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In election precincts composed of a township or a part thereof, and a municipal corporation or a part thereof, separate ballots for each precinct shall be provided for all elections, so as to enable electors residing in such precincts to cast their votes for the proper candidates…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.10 Presidential ballot

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(A) On the presidential ballot below the stubs at the top of the face of the ballot shall be printed "Official Presidential Ballot" centered between the side edges of the ballot. Below "Official Presidential Ballot" shall be printed a heavy line centered between the side edges of…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.11 Quantity of ballots to be provided

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(A) The ballots, with the stubs attached, shall be bound into tablets for each precinct, which tablets shall contain at least one per cent more ballots than the total registration in the precinct, except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section. Upon the covers of th…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.12 Type size and voting instructions

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The board of elections shall cause to be printed in English in twelvepoint type on paper or cardboard instructions as issued by the secretary of state for the guidance of electors in marking their ballots. Such instructions shall inform the voters as to how to prepare the ballots…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.13 Contract for printing ballots

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(A) A contract for the printing of ballots involving a cost in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars shall not be awarded until after a proposal period of fifteen days. During the proposal period, a notice shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation published i…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.14 Printed proofs of ballot

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After the awarding of the contract for the printing of the ballots as provided in section 3505.13 of the Revised Code, the board of elections shall secure from the printer printed proofs of the ballot, and shall notify the chairperson of the local executive committee of each part…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.15 Ballot packaging

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The board of elections shall make adequate provision for the inspection of the printing of the ballots. The person to whom the contract for printing the ballots is let shall seal them securely in packages, one package for each precinct in the county or civil division in which the…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.16 Ballot boxes and supplies placement at polling place

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Before the opening of the polls, the package of supplies and the ballot box shall be opened in the presence of the precinct officials. The ballot box, the package of ballots, registration forms, and other supplies shall at all times be in full sight of the observers, and no ballo…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.17 Lost or destroyed ballots or supplies

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If by accident or casualty the ballots or other required papers, lists, or supplies are lost or destroyed, or in case none are delivered at the polling place, or if during the time the polls are open additional ballots or supplies are required, the board of elections, upon requis…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.18 Procedure when elector entered polling place

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(A)(1) When an elector appears in a polling place to vote, the elector shall announce to the precinct election officials the elector's full name and current address and provide photo identification. (2) If an elector does not have or is unable to provide photo identification to t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.181 Eligibility to cast provisional ballot - procedure

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(A) All of the following individuals shall be permitted to cast a provisional ballot at an election: (1) An individual who declares that the individual is a registered voter in the precinct in which the individual desires to vote and that the individual is eligible to vote in an …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.182 Provisional ballot affirmation - verification

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Each individual who casts a provisional ballot under section 3505.181 of the Revised Code shall execute a written affirmation. The form of the written affirmation shall be printed upon the face of the provisional ballot envelope and shall be as follows: "Provisional Ballot Affirm…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.183 Testing and counting of provisional ballots - rejection

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(A) When the ballot boxes are delivered to the board of elections from the precincts, the board shall separate the provisional ballot envelopes from the rest of the ballots. Teams of employees of the board consisting of one member of each major political party shall place the sea…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.19 Affidavit of religious objection to being photographed

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(A) An elector who does not have photo identification because the elector has a religious objection to being photographed may complete an affidavit of religious objection in lieu of providing photo identification for the purpose of casting a provisional ballot. (B) The secretary …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.20 Challenge of elector at polling place

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Any person offering to vote may be challenged at the polling place by any precinct election official. If the board of elections has ruled on the question presented by a challenge prior to election day, its finding and decision shall be final, and the voting location manager shall…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.21 Appointment of challengers and witnesses

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(A) As used in this section : (1) " During the casting of the ballots" includes any of the following: (a) Any time during which a board of elections permits an elector to vote an absent voter's ballot in person at the office of the board; (b) Any time ballots may be cast in a pre…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.22 Impersonating an elector

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If any precinct officer has reason to believe that a person is impersonating an elector, that person, before being given a ballot, shall be questioned as to the person's right to vote, and shall be required to sign the person's name or make the person's mark in ink on a card to b…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.23 Time limit for occupying voting compartment - errors in voting - marking ballot

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Except as otherwise provided in this section, no voter shall be allowed to occupy a voting compartment or use a voting machine more than ten minutes when all the voting compartments or machines are in use and voters are waiting to occupy them. The ten-minute time limit shall not …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.24 Providing assistance to blind, disabled or illiterate electors

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(A) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, any elector who declares that the elector, by reason of blindness, disability, or illiteracy, is unable to complete a voter registration, change of residence, or change of name form, to mark a ballot, to compl…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.26 Closing polls procedures

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At the time for closing the polls, the voting location manager shall by proclamation announce that the polls are closed. The precinct election officials shall then in the presence of observers proceed as follows:(A) Count the number of electors who voted, as shown on the pollbook…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.27 Counting and tallying of ballots

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Unless otherwise ordered by the secretary of state or the board of elections, the counting and tallying of ballots shall be conducted according to procedures prescribed by the board of elections that assure an accurate count of all votes cast and that include all of the following…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.28 Rejection of ballots

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No ballot shall be counted which is marked contrary to law, except that no ballot shall be rejected for any technical error unless it is impossible to determine the voter's choice. If two or more ballots are found folded together among the ballots removed from a ballot box, they …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.29 Precinct election officials not to separate or leave until counting completed

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From the time the ballot box is opened and the count of ballots begun until the ballots are counted and certificates of votes cast are made out, signed, certified and given to the voting location manager for delivery to the headquarters of the board of elections, the precinct ele…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.30 Summary statement of results

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When the results of the ballots have been ascertained, such results shall be embodied in a summary statement to be prepared by the precinct election officials in duplicate, on forms provided by the board of elections. One copy shall be certified by the precinct election officials…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.31 Sealing ballots, pollbooks, poll lists or signature pollbooks, tally sheets

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When the results of the voting in a polling place on the day of an election have been determined and entered upon the proper forms and the certifications of those results have been signed by the precinct officials, those officials, before leaving the polling place, shall place al…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.32 Canvass of election returns

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(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section, not earlier than the fifth day or later than the fifteenth day after a general or special election, the board of elections shall begin to canvass the election returns from the precincts in which electors were entit…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.33 Declaration of election results - tie votes - abstracts and report of votes

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When the board of elections has completed the canvass of the election returns from the precincts in its county, in which electors were entitled to vote at any general or special election, it shall determine and declare the results of the elections determined by the electors of su…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.331 Audit of election results

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(A) After declaring the official results of any election, as described in section 3505.33 of the Revised Code, the board of elections shall audit those results in accordance with this section. Except as otherwise provided in this division, the board shall begin the audit not earl…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.34 Canvass of abstracts of votes for state executive offices by general assembly

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During the first week of the regular session of the general assembly following a regular state election, the president of the senate, in the presence of a majority of the members of each house of the general assembly, shall open, announce, and canvass the abstracts of the votes c…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.35 Canvass of abstracts by secretary of state

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(A) When the secretary of state has received from the board of elections of every county in the state Form No. 2, as provided for in section 3505.33 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state shall promptly fix the time and place for the canvass of such abstracts, and the time f…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.36 Canvass of abstracts of multi county candidates and issues

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When the board of elections of the most populous county of a district comprised of more than one county but less than all of the counties of the state has received from the board of every county in such district certified copies of parts of abstracts pertaining to an election in …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.37 Canvass of abstracts by county where major portion of a subdivision involved is located

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When the board of elections of a county in which the major portion of the population of a subdivision located in more than one county is located receives from the boards of each county in which other portions of such subdivision are located parts of abstracts pertaining to an ele…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.38 Certificates of election

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Election officials who are required to declare the results of a special or general election in which persons were elected to offices shall, unless otherwise provided by law, issue to the persons declared elected by them appropriate certificates of election in such form as is pres…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.39 Meeting of state's presidential electors

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The secretary of state shall immediately upon the completion of the canvass of election returns mail to each presidential elector so elected a certificate of his election and shall notify him to attend, at a place in the state capitol which the secretary of state shall select, at…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.40 Electoral vote to be cast for party nominees

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A presidential elector elected at a general election or appointed pursuant to section 3505.39 of the Revised Code shall, when discharging the duties enjoined upon him by the constitution or laws of the United States, cast his electoral vote for the nominees for president and vice…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3506.01 Voting and tabulation equipment definitions

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As used in this chapter and Chapters 3501., 3503., 3505., 3509., 3511., 3513., 3515., 3517., 3519., 3521., 3523., and 3599. of the Revised Code: (A) "Marking device" means an apparatus operated by a voter to record the voter's choices through the marking of ballots enabling them …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3506.02 Manner of adopting voting machines, marking devices, and automatic tabulating equipment

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Voting machines, marking devices, and automatic tabulating equipment may be adopted for use in elections in any county in the following manner: (A) By the board of elections;(B) By the board of county commissioners of such county on the recommendation of the board of elections;(C…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3506.021 Use of electronic pollbook

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(A) A board of elections may adopt the use of any electronic pollbook that has been certified for use in this state in accordance with section 3506.05 of the Revised Code, instead of using poll lists or signature pollbooks. A board of elections that opts to use electronic pollboo…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3506.03 Acquisition of equipment

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Upon the adoption of voting machines, marking devices, and automatic tabulating equipment either by the action of the board of elections or by the board of county commissioners, on the recommendation of the board of elections or by the affirmative vote of a majority of the electo…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3506.04 Acquisition of equipment in stages

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(A) If it is impracticable to supply each election precinct with voting machines or marking devices for use at the next election following the adoption of such equipment, as many shall be supplied for that election and the succeeding elections as it is practicable to procure eith…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3506.05 Certification of voting and tabulating equipment

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(A) As used in this section: (1) "Electronic pollbook" means an electronic list of registered voters for a particular precinct or polling location that may be transported to a polling location. (2) Except when used as part of the phrase "tabulating equipment" or "automatic tabula…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3506.06 Marking device specifications

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No marking device shall be approved by the board of voting systems examiners or certified by the secretary of state, or be purchased, rented, or otherwise acquired, or used, unless it fulfills the following requirements: (A) It shall permit and require voting in absolute secrecy,…