Title [35] XXXV ELECTIONS
- Chapter 3501: ELECTION PROCEDURE; ELECTION OFFICIALS
- 3501.01 Election procedure - election officials definitions.
- 3501.011 Legal mark of registered elector.
- 3501.012 Voter application not to be refused due to specified requirements.
- 3501.02 General election - time for holding.
- 3501.03 Notice of election.
- 3501.04 Secretary of state is chief election officer.
- 3501.05 Election duties of secretary of state.
- 3501.051 Simulated election programs for minors.
- 3501.052 State officials not to serve as campaign officials.
- 3501.053 Instructions regarding conduct of elections - web publication.
- 3501.06 County board of elections.
- 3501.07 Filling vacancies on county boards of elections.
- 3501.08 Oath of members.
- 3501.09 Organization of county board.
- 3501.091 Chairman or director replaced with member of opposite party.
- 3501.10 Offices and records of board.
- 3501.11 Board duties.
- 3501.12 Compensation of board members.
- 3501.13 Duties of director.
- 3501.14 Compensation of director, deputy director, and employees of board.
- 3501.141 Insurance coverage of board members and employees.
- 3501.15 Election officials not to be candidates - exceptions.
- 3501.16 Secretary of state may remove or suspend from office.
- 3501.161 Filling vacancy in office of chairman or director with member of opposite party.
- 3501.17 Expenditures and costs.
- 3501.18 Division of political subdivision into precincts.
- 3501.19 [Repealed].
- 3501.20 State or national home for disabled soldiers may be a precinct.
- 3501.21 Change of precinct or polling place notice.
- 3501.22 Precinct officials.
- 3501.221 Appointment of interpreters.
- 3501.23 Special elections precinct officials.
- 3501.24, 3501.25 [Repealed].
- 3501.26 Procedure upon closing of polls.
- 3501.27 Qualifications of precinct officials.
- 3501.28 Compensation of precinct officials.
- 3501.29 Polling places.
- 3501.30 Polling place supplies.
- 3501.301 Supplies other than ballots.
- 3501.31 Notice of election mailed to precinct officials.
- 3501.32 Hours for polling places.
- 3501.33 Authority of precinct officials.
- 3501.34 Duties of police as to elections.
- 3501.35 No loitering or congregating near polling places.
- 3501.36 Fees and mileage for officials delivering or returning election supplies.
- 3501.37 Safekeeping of election booths and equipment.
- 3501.38 General rules for petitions and declarations of candidacy.
- 3501.381 Compensation regarding signature gathering activities - forms to be filed with secretary of state.
- 3501.382 Attorney in fact may sign for disabled voter.
- 3501.39 Grounds for rejection of petition or declaration of candidacy.
- 3501.90 Civil action by elector for harassment.
- Chapter 3503: VOTERS - QUALIFICATIONS; REGISTRATION
- 3503.01 Qualifications of electors - precinct assignment for school elections.
- 3503.011 Qualifications of electors for primary elections.
- 3503.02 Residence determination rules.
- 3503.03 Residence for soldiers in national home for such soldiers.
- 3503.04 Residence for inmates of a public or private institution.
- 3503.05 [Repealed].
- 3503.06 Registration as elector - circulation or signing of initiative or referendum.
- 3503.07 Qualification for registration.
- 3503.08 Registration equipment, supplies and rules.
- 3503.09 Electronic transfer of voter registration database changes.
- 3503.10 Voter registration programs.
- 3503.11 Registering to vote with registrar of motor vehicles.
- 3503.111 Registering in another county.
- 3503.12 Duplicate registration - advertising registration opportunities - registration places to be accessible.
- 3503.13 Registration forms - records - electronic data processing system.
- 3503.14 Form and content of forms - inability of registrant to sign name.
- 3503.15 Statewide voter registration database.
- 3503.16 Change of address or name.
- 3503.17 Precinct boundary changes.
- 3503.18 Cancellation of registration.
- 3503.19 Methods of registration or change of registration.
- 3503.191 Uniformed services voters - procedures for receiving voter registration forms.
- 3503.20 [Repealed].
- 3503.21 Occurrences resulting in cancellation of registration.
- 3503.22 [Repealed].
- 3503.23 Precinct official registration list.
- 3503.24 Application for correction of precinct registration list or challenge of right to vote.
- 3503.25 Investigations regarding the registration.
- 3503.26 Custody of registration forms, records and lists.
- 3503.27 [Repealed].
- 3503.28 Information brochure regarding voter registration.
- 3503.29 Training and registration of compensated voter registrants.
- 3503.30 Correction of registration form.
- 3503.31 [Repealed].
- 3503.32 [Repealed].
- 3503.33 Prior registration in another county or state - cancellation authorization.
- Chapter 3504: PRESIDENTIAL BALLOTS - FORMER RESIDENTS
- 3504.01 Voting in presidential elections by voters who have moved from Ohio.
- 3504.02 Certificate of intent to vote.
- 3504.03 [Repealed].
- 3504.04 List of former resident who have filed certificates of intent to vote at polling places.
- 3504.05 Notification of new state of residence certificates of intent to vote in Ohio.
- 3504.06 Penalty.
- 3504.07 [Repealed].
- Chapter 3505: GENERAL AND SPECIAL ELECTION BALLOTS
- 3505.01 Forms of official ballots.
- 3505.02 Former names printed in parentheses on ballot.
- 3505.021 Candidates with identical given names and surnames.
- 3505.03 Office type ballots.
- 3505.04 Nonpartisan ballot.
- 3505.05 [Repealed].
- 3505.06 Questions and issues ballot.
- 3505.061 Ohio ballot board.
- 3505.062 Ohio ballot board duties.
- 3505.063 Proposed constitutional amendments - official explanation and arguments.
- 3505.07 Separate ballots for candidates, question, or issue.
- 3505.071 Ballots in joint county school districts.
- 3505.08 Ballot material - stubs.
- 3505.09 Separate ballots for each precinct and district.
- 3505.10 Presidential ballot.
- 3505.11 Quantity of ballots to be provided.
- 3505.12 Type size and voting instructions.
- 3505.13 Contract for printing ballots.
- 3505.14 Printed proofs of ballot.
- 3505.15 Ballot packaging.
- 3505.16 Ballot boxes and supplies placement at polling place.
- 3505.17 Lost or destroyed ballots or supplies.
- 3505.18 Procedure when elector entered polling place.
- 3505.181 Eligibility to cast provisional ballot - procedure.
- 3505.182 Provisional ballot affirmation - verification.
- 3505.183 Testing and counting of provisional ballots - rejection.
- 3505.19 Challenge of elector.
- 3505.20 Challenge of elector at polling place.
- 3505.21 Appointment of challengers and witnesses.
- 3505.22 Impersonating an elector.
- 3505.23 Time limit for occupying voting compartment - errors in voting - marking ballot.
- 3505.24 Provising assistance to blind, disabled or illiterate electors.
- 3505.25 Tabulation of optical scan ballots.
- 3505.26 Closing polls procedures.
- 3505.27 Counting and tallying of ballots.
- 3505.28 Rejection of ballots.
- 3505.29 Judges not to separate or leave until counting completed.
- 3505.30 Summary statement of results.
- 3505.31 Sealing ballots, pollbooks, poll lists or signature pollbooks, tally sheets.
- 3505.32 Canvass of election returns.
- 3505.33 Declaration of election results - tie votes - abstracts and report of votes.
- 3505.34 Canvass of abstracts of votes for state executive offices by general assembly.
- 3505.35 Canvass of abstracts by secretary of state.
- 3505.36 Canvass of abstracts of multi county candidates and issues.
- 3505.37 Canvass of abstracts by county where major portion of a subdivision involved is located.
- 3505.38 Certificates of election.
- 3505.39 Meeting of state's presidential electors.
- 3505.40 Electoral vote to be cast for party nominees.
- Chapter 3506: VOTING AND TABULATING EQUIPMENT
- 3506.01 Voting and tabulation equipment definitions.
- 3506.02 Manner of adopting voting machines, marking devices, and automatic tabulating equipment.
- 3506.03 Acquisition of equipment.
- 3506.04 Acquisition of equipment in stages.
- 3506.05 Certification of voting and tabulating equipment.
- 3506.06 Marking device specifications.
- 3506.07 Automatic tabulating equipment.
- 3506.08 Printed ballot card specifications.
- 3506.09 Marking devices designed for use with electronic data processing cards.
- 3506.10 Requirements for approval or certification of voting machines.
- 3506.11 Rotation of candidates' names.
- 3506.12 County board to combine, rearrange or enlarge precincts - counting stations.
- 3506.13 Challengers and witnesses in precincts where marking devices, automatic tabulating equipment, voting machines, or any combination of these are used.
- 3506.14 Testing and auditing of voting equipment.
- 3506.15 Secretary of state to promulgate rules for equipment and conduct of elections.
- 3506.16 Punch card ballots - chads.
- 3506.17 [Repealed].
- 3506.18 Electronic voting machine - verified paper audit trail as official ballot in recount.
- 3506.19 Disability-accessible electronic voting machine to be required at each polling place.
- 3506.20 Tracking number required for ballots on demand system.
- 3506.21 Optical scan ballot marking requirements.
- 3506.22 Direct recording electronic voting machines after 2012.
- 3506.23 Voting machines not to be connected to internet.
- Chapter 3507: [REPEALED] VOTING MACHINES
- Chapter 3509: ABSENT VOTER'S BALLOTS
- 3509.01 Absent voter's ballot procedures.
- 3509.02 Qualifications for voting by absent voter's ballot.
- 3509.021 Identification envelopes containing absent voter's ballots for former resident voters in presidential elections.
- 3509.022 [Repealed] Overseas voter may apply for absent voter's ballot.
- 3509.03 Application for absent voter's ballot.
- 3509.031 Absent voter's ballot for member of state militia on active duty in the state.
- 3509.032 [Repealed].
- 3509.04 Delivery of absent voter's ballot.
- 3509.05 Voting and return procedure.
- 3509.06 Counting absent voters' ballots.
- 3509.061 [Repealed].
- 3509.07 Rejection and challenge of absent voter ballots.
- 3509.08 Disabled and confined absent voter's ballots.
- 3509.081 [Repealed].
- 3509.09 Poll list to identify electors requesting absent voter's ballot.
- Chapter 3511: ARMED SERVICES ABSENT VOTER'S BALLOTS
- 3511.01 Poll list to identify electors requesting absent voter's ballot.
- 3511.02 Application for registration and absent voter's ballot.
- 3511.021 Procedures for applying for uniformed services or overseas absent voter's ballots.
- 3511.03 Form of ballots.
- 3511.04 Ballot sent by mail or facsimile machine.
- 3511.05 Identification envelope format and return.
- 3511.051 Marking of identification envelopes containing presidential ballots.
- 3511.06 Size and quality of identification and return envelopes.
- 3511.07 Mailing precautions.
- 3511.08 Record of distribution.
- 3511.09 Voting procedure.
- 3511.10 Voting at board of elections.
- 3511.11 Procedure upon board receiving ballots.
- 3511.12 Counting armed service absent voter's ballots.
- 3511.13 Poll list to identify electors requesting armed services absent voter's ballot.
- 3511.14 Acceptance and processing of federal write-in ballots.
- Chapter 3513: PRIMARIES; NOMINATIONS
- 3513.01 Primary elections.
- 3513.02 Certificate of nomination when no primary necessary.
- 3513.03 Election officials for primary elections.
- 3513.04 Filing declaration of candidacy.
- 3513.041 Write-in votes.
- 3513.05 Deadline for filing declaration of candidacy.
- 3513.051 County central committee may determine no need for petition.
- 3513.052 Candidacy for more than one office at a time prohibited.
- 3513.06 Change of name of candidate.
- 3513.07 Form of declaration of candidacy and petition.
- 3513.08 Declaration of candidacy for judicial office.
- 3513.09 Candidate's signature.
- 3513.10 Filing fees.
- 3513.11 State convention of major political parties.
- 3513.111 Nominating candidates for election as presidential electors.
- 3513.12 Delegates to national party convention.
- 3513.121 Delegates to national party convention alternative procedures.
- 3513.122 Electing delegates and alternates to other national conventions or conferences.
- 3513.13 Separate primary election ballots for political parties.
- 3513.131 Candidates with identical surnames.
- 3513.14 Primary election ballot form.
- 3513.15 Rotating names of candidates on ballot.
- 3513.151 Arrangement of names of candidates for delegate and alternate to national convention of political party.
- 3513.16 Designation of term for judge of court of common pleas on primary ballot.
- 3513.17 Death of candidate before primary election.
- 3513.18 Primary election pollbooks.
- 3513.19 Challenges at primary elections.
- 3513.191 Disqualification of candidate for party primary.
- 3513.192 Forfeiting nomination.
- 3513.20 Effect of challenge to voter at primary.
- 3513.21 Counting and return of ballots.
- 3513.22 Canvass and certification of votes.
- 3513.23 Write-in votes.
- 3513.24 Canvass of votes for members of party committees.
- 3513.25 [Repealed].
- 3513.251 Nomination for officers of municipal corporation.
- 3513.252 [Repealed].
- 3513.253 Nomination for officers of township.
- 3513.254 Nomination for members of board of education.
- 3513.255 Petitions for member of governing board of educational service center.
- 3513.256 Procedures for a nonpartisan primary election.
- 3513.257 Independent candidates statements of candidacy and nominating petitions.
- 3513.258 [Repealed].
- 3513.259 Nomination for member of the state board of education.
- 3513.26 [Repealed].
- 3513.261 Nominating petition form and fee.
- 3513.262 Filing deadline for nominating petitions.
- 3513.263 Processing nominating petitions.
- 3513.27 [Repealed].
- 3513.271 Name change within five years immediately preceding filing of statement of candidacy.
- 3513.28 Designation of term.
- 3513.29 [Repealed].
- 3513.291 [Repealed].
- 3513.30 Death or withdrawal of candidate before primary election.
- 3513.301 Special election of party candidate for Congress.
- 3513.31 Withdrawal, disqualification, or death of candidate prior to general election.
- 3513.311 Withdrawal, disqualification, or death of governor or lieutenant governor candidate prior to general election.
- 3513.312 Withdrawal, disqualification, or death of Congress candidate prior to general election.
- 3513.32 Primary preceding special election.
- 3513.33 Notice of prohibited campaign practices.
- Chapter 3515: RECOUNT; CONTEST OF ELECTIONS
- 3515.01 Eligibility for recount.
- 3515.011 Recounts ordered by board.
- 3515.02 Application for recount.
- 3515.03 Contents of application for recount.
- 3515.04 Recount procedure.
- 3515.041 Recount for presidential electors no later than six days before meeting.
- 3515.05 Duties of board upon completion of recount.
- 3515.06 Recount in precincts not recounted.
- 3515.07 Charges for recounts.
- 3515.071 Expenses of recounts.
- 3515.072 Biennial adjustment of charges for recounts.
- 3515.08 Election contest.
- 3515.09 Filing election contest petition.
- 3515.10 Time for hearing election contest.
- 3515.11 Proceedings at trial of contest of election.
- 3515.12 Witnesses - subpoenas.
- 3515.13 Contest of election involving recount.
- 3515.14 Judgment on contest.
- 3515.15 Appeal to supreme court.
- 3515.16 Form of testimony in supreme court.
- Chapter 3517: CAMPAIGNS; POLITICAL PARTIES
- 3517.01 [Effective Until 9/10/2010] Political party definitions.
- 3517.011 Petition form.
- 3517.012 Party comes into legal existence on date of filing.
- 3517.013 Candidate of new party not disqualified by having voted in different party primary.
- 3517.014 Candidate of new party not disqualified at first primary election after formation.
- 3517.015 Membership of newly formed political party.
- 3517.016 New party primary vote not barred by prior party affiliation.
- 3517.02 Controlling committees of major or intermediate political party.
- 3517.03 Controlling committees of major or intermediate political party membership.
- 3517.04 Organization of state central committees.
- 3517.05 Terms of party committees - determining rightful county central or executive committee.
- 3517.06 Names and addresses of members and officers of county central committee and county executive committee.
- 3517.07 Parties or groups advocating overthrow of government by force or violence.
- 3517.08 Expenses of candidate, political action committee, political party, or political contributing entity.
- 3517.081 Campaign committee, treasurer.
- 3517.082 Political action committee - separate segregated fund.
- 3517.09 Coercing political contributions.
- 3517.091 Door-to-door solicitations for political contributions.
- 3517.092 Solicitation of political contributions from public employees by appointing authorities.
- 3517.093 [See Note] Deleted.
- 3517.10 [Effective Until 9/10/2010] Statements of campaign contributions and expenditures.
- 3517.101 Gift to pay for office facilities.
- 3517.1010 Disposal of any excess funds and excess aggregate contributions by candidate filing declaration of no limits or personal funds notice.
- 3517.1011 Notices and disclosures regarding electioneering communications.
- 3517.1012 Political parties to establish restricted funds - deposits and disbursements.
- 3517.1013 Gifts to defray costs of campaign activities - separate account - statement to be filed.
- 3517.1014 [Effective 9/10/2010] Transition funds.
- 3517.1015 [Effective 9/10/2010] Disclosure of contributions.
- 3517.102 Dollar limits on campaign contributions.
- 3517.103 Deposit of personal funds in candidate's own campaign fund.
- 3517.104 Contribution limitations adjustments.
- 3517.105 Identification of source of political advertising.
- 3517.106 [Effective Until 9/10/2010] Statements of contributions and expenditures computerized by secretary of state.
- 3517.107 Federal political committee registration.
- 3517.108 Additional contributions for unpaid debt.
- 3517.109 Disposal of any excess funds and excess aggregate contributions.
- 3517.11 [Effective Until 9/10/2010] Requirement of filing statement.
- 3517.12 Itemized statement of expenditures on issues.
- 3517.13 Failure to file statements.
- 3517.14 Ohio elections commission - prior to 1996.
- 3517.15 [Repealed].
- 3517.151 Filing complaints for acts occurring before July 13, 1998.
- 3517.152 Ohio elections commission.
- 3517.153 [Effective Until 9/10/2010] Filing complaint.
- 3517.154 [Effective Until 9/10/2010] Review of complaint.
- 3517.155 Hearing on complaint.
- 3517.156 Probable cause hearing.
- 3517.157 Time limit for complaint.
- 3517.16 Ohio political party fund.
- 3517.17 Division of Ohio political party fund.
- 3517.18 Uses of Ohio political party fund.
- 3517.19 Sale of membership and mailing lists.
- 3517.20 Political publications identification of source.
- 3517.21 Infiltration of campaign - false statements in campaign materials - election of candidate.
- 3517.22 Infiltration of campaign - false statements in campaign materials - issues.
- 3517.23 Rules for administration of campaign finance and advertising.
- 3517.99 Penalty.
- 3517.991 Fine schedule for violations before 8-24-95.
- 3517.992 [Effective Until 9/10/2010] Penalties for violations on or after 8-24-95.
- 3517.993 Fine schedule for violations after 8-24-95.
- Chapter 3519: INITIATIVE; REFERENDUM
- 3519.01 Initiative and referendum petitions.
- 3519.02 Designation of committee.
- 3519.03 Argument or explanation of petitions.
- 3519.04 Estimate of annual expenditure of public funds proposed and annual yield of proposed taxes.
- 3519.05 Form of petitions.
- 3519.051 Original ink signatures required for initiative and referendum.
- 3519.06 Verification of petition.
- 3519.07 Web site postings required for initiative or referendum proposals.
- 3519.08 Withdrawal of petition - ballot procedure.
- 3519.09 [Repealed].
- 3519.10 Qualifications of signers - format of signing.
- 3519.11 [Repealed].
- 3519.12, 3519.13 [Repealed].
- 3519.14 Minimum number of signatures.
- 3519.15 Part-petitions.
- 3519.16 Protests against board finding.
- 3519.17 [Repealed].
- 3519.18 Power of board in hearing protests.
- 3519.19, 3519.20 [Repealed].
- 3519.21 Ballot title and order.
- 3519.22 Election not affected by insufficient signatures - number of signatures.
- Chapter 3521: CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS
- Chapter 3523: AMENDMENTS TO UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
- 3523.01 Amendment to United States constitution.
- 3523.02 Electing delegates to constitutional convention.
- 3523.03 Election on amendment to Unites State constitution.
- 3523.04 Candidates - qualifications - nomination.
- 3523.05 Form of ballot.
- 3523.06 Vacancy in office of delegate.
- 3523.07 Meeting of delegates.
- 3523.08 Convention powers and rules.
- 3523.09 Convention journal.
- 3523.10 Certification of ratification of amendment.
- 3523.11 Transportation expenses of delegates.
- 3523.12 Congress to set manner in which the convention shall be constituted.
- Chapter 3599: OFFENSES AND PENALTIES
- 3599.01 Bribery.
- 3599.02 Bribery - offenses concerning voters or voting.
- 3599.03 [Effective Until 9/10/2010] Use of corporation and labor organization funds for political purposes.
- 3599.031 Payroll deductions of political contributions - separate account.
- 3599.04 Corrupt practices - contributions for illegal election purposes.
- 3599.05 Corrupt practices - employer shall not influence political opinions or votes of employees.
- 3599.06 Employer shall not interfere with employee on election day.
- 3599.07 Unlawful possession or distribution of ballots.
- 3599.08 Corrupt practices - influencing candidates and voters by publications.
- 3599.09 Seeking nomination or election to more than one prohibited office at same election.
- 3599.091, 3599.092 Amended and Renumbered RC 3517.21, 3517.22.
- 3599.10 Corrupt practices - candidate for general assembly shall not be asked to pledge vote.
- 3599.11 False voter registration - registration forms.
- 3599.111 Per signature or per volume voter registration compensation prohibited - penalty.
- 3599.12 Illegal voting.
- 3599.13 Signing of petitions.
- 3599.14 Prohibited acts concerning declarations or petitions.
- 3599.15 Purchase, theft, sale, destruction, or mutilation of petitions.
- 3599.16 Misconduct of member, director, or employee of board of elections - dismissal.
- 3599.161 Prohibiting inspection of election records.
- 3599.17 Prohibitions concerning elections officials.
- 3599.18 Prohibitions concerning registration of electors.
- 3599.19 Prohibitions concerning judge or clerk of elections.
- 3599.20 Prohibitions concerning ballots generally.
- 3599.21 Prohibitions concerning absent voter's ballot.
- 3599.22 Prohibitions concerning printing of ballots.
- 3599.23 Prohibitions concerning election materials or papers.
- 3599.24 Interference with conduct of election.
- 3599.25 Inducing illegal voting.
- 3599.26 Tampering with ballots.
- 3599.27 Possession of or tampering with voting machine, automatic tabulating equipment, or marking device prohibited.
- 3599.28 False signatures.
- 3599.29 Possession of false records.
- 3599.30 [Repealed].
- 3599.31 Failure of officer of law to assist election officers.
- 3599.32 General prohibition concerning election officials.
- 3599.33 Fraudulent marking or altering ballots or election records.
- 3599.34 Prohibitions concerning destruction of election records.
- 3599.35 Proxies not to be given by party representatives - impersonation of representatives.
- 3599.36 Election falsification.
- 3599.37 Disobedience of subpoena concerning violation of election laws.
- 3599.38 Illegally influencing voters while performing election duties.
- 3599.39 Second conviction under election laws.
- 3599.40 General penalty.
- 3599.41 Person violating election laws may testify against other violators.
- 3599.42 Prima-facie case of fraud.
- 3599.43 Prohibitions concerning communication purporting to be from board of elections.
- 3599.44 [Repealed].
- 3599.45 Candidates prohibited from accepting contributions from medicaid providers.