The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1958-10-09
Your Election Laws

Each person voting in Ohio
in November, 1858, will receive
at least three ballots: Cd Office
Type; (2) Non-Partisan; (3)
Questions and Issues.
The law establishing the Office
Type Ballot requires that it shall
contain the names Of all candi-
dates for election to office who
were nominated at the next pre-
ceding primary election as can
didates of political party, or
who were nominated by nomi-
mating petition as independent
candidates, except candidates for
judicial offices. In an oddnum-
bered year candidates for judi
cial office, member of board of
education and township office,
and certain municipal offices are
also specifically exempted from
the Office Type Ballot. These
latter mentioned offices are re-
quired TO be placed on a Non
Partisan ballot
The Constitution of the State
of Ohio states that the names
of all candidates for an office
at a general election shall be
arranged in group under the
title of that office and shall be
SO alternated that each name
shall appear, insofar as may be
reasonably possible, substantially
an equal number of times at the
beginning, at the end, and in
each intermediate place, if any,
of the group in which such name
belongs
Names of the candidates are
first arranged in alphabetical
order number, the title of the
office they seek, and rotation is
accomplished by moving the
names up one space for each
series to be printed. The name
of the political party of a can
didatc is printed beneath the
name of the candidate, except
that no designation is shown if a
candidate is an independent.
Names of candidates for the fol-
lowing offices will appear on the
Office Type ballot: Governor;
Lieutenant Governor; Secretary
of State; Treasurer of State: At
torney General; United States
Senator; Representative to Con-
| greSs; State Senator; Represen-
tative to the General Assembly:
County Commissioners; County
Auditor; and in a number of
counties the uneXpired term for
other county offices.
The Ohio statutes also recog-
nize the possibility that an cleo
tor will be i'll on the day of the
election, or so disabled that he
will be unable to travel from his
home or place of confinement to
the voting booth in his precinct
on the day of an election. The
| law therefore allows such dis.
abled voter to make application,
in writing, for a Disabled Absent
| Voters ballot to the Clerk of the
| Board of Election of his county
In his application he must state
the nature of his illness or physi-
cal disability. and his resultant
inability to travel to the election
booth in his precinct on election
day. A special form Of applica-
ton can be obtained from the
Board Of Elections upon request
The application must be re-
turned to the Board of Elections
| between October and 400 p. m
of October 80. The application
and statement must be accom-
| panied by the certificate of the
attending physician or other re-
putable physician giving the
facts relative to such illness OF
disability, and an affidavit sign
ed by such disabled elector The
physicians certificate need not be
notarized, but the rest of the APP
plication must be notarized.
After the Clerk of the Board
has satisfied himself that the APP
plicant is a qualified voter, and
the facts regarding such voters
illness or disability are as stated
he shall proceed to furnish the
elector with the proper ballots
| Unless the Board of Elections
has decided to use two assistant
clerks to deliver the ballots in
person, the disabled ballots will
be mailed directly to the appli.
cant at his voting residence OF
| place of confinement as stated
in his application; and returned
by the applicant to the office o1
the Board of Elections by mai
not later than 1900 noon Friday
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