Case ID: ohio-law-abs_7/html/0381-02.html
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Author: {"author": "ALLEN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE ex AUTOMATIC REGISTERING MACHINE CO v GREEN, Director of Finance etc.
    Ohio Supreme Court
    No 21676.
    Decided June 19, 1929
   Syllabus by

ALLEN, J.

ELECTIONS

(240 V2) A constitutional requirement that all elections be by ballot does not invalidate an otherwise legal enactment providing for the use of voting machines in elections. The term “ballot” designates a method of conducting elections which will insure secrecy, as distinguished., from open or viva-voce voting. (State, ex rel. Karlinger, v. Board of Deputy State Supervisors of Elections, 80 Ohio St., 471, overruled).

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS

(360 C2) A charter city is not authorized, under Section 3 of Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution to prescribe a method of conducting state and county elections.

Marshall, CJ, Kinkade, Matthias and Day, JJ, concur. Robinson and Jones, JJ, concur in proposition 2 of the syllabus and in .the judgment.