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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. § 3501.381 Compensation regarding signature gathering activities - forms to be filed with secretary of state
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(A)(1) Any person who will receive compensation for supervising, managing, or otherwise organizing any effort to obtain signatures for a declaration of candidacy, nominating petition, or declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate for a person seeking to become a statewide c…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3501.382 Attorney in fact may sign for disabled voter
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(A)(1) A registered voter who, by reason of disability, is unable to physically sign the voter's name as a candidate, signer, or circulator on a declaration of candidacy and petition, nominating petition, other petition, or other document under Title XXXV of the Revised Code may …
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3501.39 Grounds for rejection of petition or declaration of candidacy
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(A) The secretary of state or a board of elections shall accept any petition described in section 3501.38 of the Revised Code unless one of the following occurs: (1) A written protest against the petition or candidacy, naming specific objections, is filed, a hearing is held, and …
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3501.40 Public officials' orders concerning elections

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Except as permitted under section 161.09 of the Revised Code, and notwithstanding any other contrary provision of the Revised Code, no public official shall cause an election to be conducted other than in the time, place, and manner prescribed by the Revised Code. As used in this…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3501.90 Civil action by elector for harassment

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(A) As used in this section:(1) "Harassment in violation of the election law" means either of the following:(a) Any of the following types of conduct in or about a polling place or a place of registration or election: obstructing access of an elector to a polling place; another i…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.01 Qualifications of electors - precinct assignment for school elections

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(A) Every citizen of the United States who is of the age of eighteen years or over and who has been a resident of the state thirty days immediately preceding the election at which the citizen offers to vote, is a resident of the county and precinct in which the citizen offers to …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.011 Qualifications of electors for primary elections

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At a primary election every qualified elector who is or will be on the day of the next general election eighteen or more years of age, and who is a member of or is affiliated with the political party whose primary election ballot he desires to vote, shall be entitled to vote such…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.02 Residence determination rules

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All registrars and precinct election officials, in determining the residence of a person offering to register or vote, shall be governed by the following rules: (A) That place shall be considered the residence of a person in which the person's habitation is fixed and to which, wh…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.03 Residence for soldiers in national home for such soldiers

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Infirm or disabled soldiers who are inmates of a national home for such soldiers, who are citizens of the United States and have resided in this state thirty days immediately preceding any election, and who are otherwise qualified as to age and residence within the county and tow…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.04 Residence for inmates of a public or private institution

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Persons who are inmates of a public or private institution who are citizens of the United States and have resided in this state thirty days immediately preceding the election, and who are otherwise qualified as to age and residence within the county shall have their lawful reside…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.06 Registration as elector - circulation or signing of petition

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(A) No person shall be entitled to vote at any election, unless the person is registered as an elector and will have resided in the county and precinct where the person is registered for at least thirty days at the time of the next election. (B) No person shall be entitled to sig…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.07 Qualification for registration

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Each person who will be of the age of eighteen years or more at the next ensuing November election, who is a citizen of the United States, and who, if he continues to reside in the precinct until the next election, will at that time have fulfilled all the requirements as to lengt…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.08 Registration equipment, supplies and rules

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The board of elections shall provide such printed forms, blanks, supplies, and equipment and prescribe such reasonable rules as are necessary to carry out sections 3503.06 to 3503.32 of the Revised Code.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.09 Electronic transfer of voter registration database changes

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(A)(1) The secretary of state shall adopt rules for the electronic transmission by boards of elections, designated agencies, public high schools and vocational schools, public libraries, and offices of county treasurers, where applicable, of name and residence changes for voter r…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.10 Voter registration programs

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(A) Each designated agency shall designate one person within that agency to serve as coordinator for the voter registration program within the agency and its departments, divisions, and programs. The designated person shall be trained under a program designed by the secretary of …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.11 Registering to vote with registrar of motor vehicles

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(A)(1) When any person applies for a driver's license, commercial driver's license, a state of Ohio identification card issued under section 4507.50 of the Revised Code, or motorcycle operator's license or endorsement, or the renewal or duplicate of any license or endorsement und…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.111 Registering in another county

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The board of elections of any county shall register or change the registration of any person determined not to be a resident in that county under section 3503.02 of the Revised Code, who is a resident and a qualified elector of another county in this state, on behalf of the count…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.12 Duplicate registration - advertising registration opportunities - registration places to be accessible

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All registrations shall be carefully checked, and in case any person is found to have registered more than once, the additional registration forms shall be canceled by the board of elections. Six weeks prior to the day of a special, primary, or general election, the board shall p…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.13 Registration forms - records - electronic data processing system

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(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, voter registration forms submitted by applicants and the statewide voter registration database established under section 3503.15 of the Revised Code are public records subject to disclosure under section 149.…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.14 Form and content of forms - inability of registrant to sign name

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(A) The secretary of state shall prescribe the form and content of the registration, change of residence, and change of name forms used in this state. The forms shall meet the requirements of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and shall include spaces for all of the foll…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.15 Statewide voter registration database

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(A) The secretary of state shall establish and maintain a statewide voter registration database that shall be administered by the office of data analytics and archives in the office of the secretary of state and made continuously available to each board of elections and to other …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.151 Database maintenance

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(A) The secretary of state, through the office of data analytics and archives, and the boards of elections shall maintain the accuracy of the statewide voter registration database in accordance with this section. (B)(1) State agencies, including, but not limited to, the departmen…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.152 Review of database for noncitizens

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(A) The secretary of state shall conduct reviews of the statewide voter registration database on at least a monthly basis to identify persons who are not United States citizens by consulting the following sources: (1) Information the secretary of state obtains from the bureau of …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.153 Database website

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(A) The statewide voter registration database shall be made available on a web site of the office of the secretary of state as follows: (1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the following information from the statewide voter registration database re…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.16 Change of address or name

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(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (E) of section 111.44 of the Revised Code, whenever a registered elector changes the place of residence of that registered elector from one precinct to another within a county or from one county to another, or has a change of name, tha…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.17 Precinct boundary changes

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When a new precinct has been created, or the boundaries thereof have been changed, the election authorities shall correct and transfer the registration forms of registered electors whose voting precincts have thus been changed and shall notify such registrants by mail. The regist…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.18 Cancellation of registration

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(A)(1) Not later than the last day of each month, the director of health shall file with the secretary of state the names, social security numbers, dates of birth, dates of death, and residences of all persons, over eighteen years of age, who have died within this state or anothe…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.19 Methods of registration or change of registration

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(A) Persons qualified to register or to change their registration because of a change of address or change of name may register or change their registration in person at any state or local office of a designated agency, at the office of the registrar or any deputy registrar of mo…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.191 Uniformed services voters - procedures for receiving voter registration forms

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(A) The secretary of state shall establish procedures that allow any person who is eligible to vote as a uniformed services voter or an overseas voter in accordance with Chapter 3511. of the Revised Code to request voter registration forms electronically from the office of the se…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.20 Online voter registration system

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(A) The secretary of state shall establish a secure online voter registration system. The system shall provide for all of the following:(1) An applicant to submit a voter registration application to the secretary of state online through the internet;(2) The online applicant to be…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.201 Electors whose information must be verified

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(A)(1) When either of the following occur, the board of elections shall send the elector a confirmation notice and, if the board's records are not already so marked, shall mark the elector's registration record, the official registration list, and the poll list or signature pollb…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.21 Occurrences resulting in cancellation of registration

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(A) The registration of a registered elector shall be canceled upon the occurrence of any of the following: (1) The filing by a registered elector of a written request with a board of elections or the secretary of state, on a form prescribed by the secretary of state and signed b…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.23 Precinct official registration list

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(A) Fourteen days before an election, the board of elections shall cause to be prepared from the statewide voter registration database established under section 3503.15 of the Revised Code a complete and official registration list for each precinct, containing the names, addresse…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.24 Application for correction of precinct registration list or challenge of right to vote

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(A) Application for the correction of any precinct registration list or a challenge of the right to vote of any registered elector may be made by any qualified elector at the office of the board of elections not later than the thirtieth day before the day of the election. The app…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.25 Investigations regarding the registration

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The board of elections may conduct investigations, summon witnesses, and take testimony under oath regarding the registration of any voter or as to the accuracy of the registration lists in any precinct.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.26 Custody of registration forms, records and lists

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(A) All registration forms and lists, when not in official use by the registrars or precinct election officials, shall be in the possession of the board of elections. Names and addresses of electors may be copied from the registration lists only in the office of the board when it…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.28 Information brochure regarding voter registration

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(A) The secretary of state shall develop an information brochure regarding voter registration. The brochure shall include, but is not limited to, all of the following information: (1) The applicable deadlines for registering to vote or for returning an applicant's completed regis…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.29 Training and registration of compensated voter registrants

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(A) The secretary of state shall develop and make available through a web site of the office of the secretary of state a training program for any person who receives or expects to receive compensation for registering a voter. The secretary of state shall specify, by rule adopted …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.30 Correction of registration form

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When by mistake a qualified elector has caused himself to be registered in a precinct which was not his place of residence, the board of elections, on full and satisfactory proof that such error was committed by mistake, may, on his personal application and proof of his true resi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3503.33 Prior registration in another county or state - cancellation authorization

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If an elector applying for registration is already registered in another state or in another county within this state, the elector shall declare this fact to the registration officer and shall sign an authorization to cancel the previous registration on a form prescribed by the s…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3504.01 Voting in presidential elections by voters who have moved from Ohio

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Each citizen of the United States who, on the day of the succeeding presidential election, will be eighteen years of age or over, who has moved the citizen's residence from this state not more than ninety days prior to the day of such presidential election, who has not registered…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3504.02 Certificate of intent to vote

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(A) Any citizen who desires to vote in a presidential election under this chapter shall, not later than four p.m. of the thirtieth day prior to the date of the presidential election, complete a certificate of intent to vote for presidential and vice-presidential electors. The cer…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3504.04 List of former resident who have filed certificates of intent to vote at polling places

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(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, on or before election day, the director of the board of elections shall deliver to the polling place a list of persons who have filed certificates of intent to vote as former resident voters and who appear, from their voting…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3504.05 Notification of new state of residence certificates of intent to vote in Ohio

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The director of the board of elections shall forward copies of all certificates of intent received from former residents to the secretary of state no later than the twenty-fifth day prior to the day of the election in which such former resident desires to vote. Upon receipt of su…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3504.06 Penalty

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A person who willfully makes a false statement or affidavit under sections 3504.01 to 3504.06 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.01 Forms of official ballots

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(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in section 3519.08 of the Revised Code, on the seventieth day before the day of the next general election, the secretary of state shall certify to the board of elections of each county the forms of the official ballots to be used at that genera…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.011 Ranked choice voting prohibited

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(A) Except as otherwise permitted under Article X or Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution, no election shall be conducted in this state using ranked choice voting or instant runoff voting. (B) If the secretary of state determines that a county or municipal corporation has, by resolut…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.02 Former names printed in parentheses on ballot

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Any former names which have been declared or submitted in accordance with section 3513.06 of the Revised Code shall be printed on the ballot in parentheses directly below the present name of such person. This section applies to both primary and general election ballots.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.021 Candidates with identical given names and surnames

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In the event two or more persons with identical given name and surnames run for the same office in a general or special election on the same ballot, the names of the candidates shall be differentiated on the ballot by varying combinations of first and middle names and initials. I…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 3505.03 Office type ballots

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(A) On the office type ballot shall be printed the names of all candidates for election to offices, except the office of judge of a municipal court, county court, or court of common pleas, who were nominated at the most recent primary election as candidates of a political party o…