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Ohio Rev Code § 3599.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.19 | Prohibitions Concerning Precinct Election Officials.

Effective: February 25, 2014|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 109 - 130th General Assembly|(A) No precinct election official shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Unlawfully open or permit to be opened the sealed package containing registration lists, ballots, blanks, pollbooks, and other papers and material to be used in an election;(2) Unlawfully misplace, carry away, negligently lose or permit to be taken from the precinct election official, fail to deliver, or destroy any such packages, papers, or material;(3) Receive or sanction the reception of a ballot from a person not a qualified elector or from a person who refused to answer a question in accordance with the election law;(4) Refuse to receive or sanction the rejection of a ballot from a person, knowing that person to be a qualified elector;(5) Permit a fraudulent ballot to be placed in the ballot box;(6) Place or permit to be placed in any ballot box any ballot known by the precinct election official to be improperly or falsely marked;(7) Count or permit to be counted any illegal or fraudulent ballot;(8) Mislead an elector who is physically unable to prepare the elector's ballot, mark a ballot for such elector otherwise than as directed by that elector, or disclose to any person, except when legally required to do so, how such elector voted;(9) Alter or mark or permit any alteration or marking on any ballot when counting the ballots;(10) Unlawfully count or tally or sanction the wrongful counting or tallying of votes;(11) After the counting of votes commences, as required by law, postpone or sanction the postponement of the counting of votes, adjourn at any time or to any place, or remove the ballot box from the place of voting, or from the custody or presence of all the precinct election officials;(12) Permit any ballot to remain or to be in the ballot box at the opening of the polls, or to be put in the box during the counting of the ballots, or to be left in the box without being counted;(13) Admit or sanction the admission to the polling room at an election during the receiving, counting, and certifying of votes of any person not qualified by law to be so admitted;(14) Refuse to admit or sanction the refusal to admit any person, upon lawful request for admission, who is legally qualified to be present;(15) Permit or sanction the counting of the ballots contrary to the manner prescribed by law;(16) Neglect or unlawfully execute any duty enjoined upon the precinct election official by law.(B) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.20 | Prohibitions Concerning Ballots Generally.

Effective: December 9, 1997|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 116 - 122nd General Assembly|No person shall attempt to induce an elector to show how the elector marked the elector's ballot at an election; or, being an elector, allow the elector's ballot to be seen by another, except as provided by section 3505.24 of the Revised Code, with the apparent intention of letting it be known how the elector is about to vote; or make a false statement as to the elector's ability to mark the ballot; or knowingly mark the ballot so it may be identified after it has been cast; or attempt to interfere with an elector in the voting booth when marking the elector's ballot; or knowingly destroy or mutilate a lawful ballot; or remove from the polling place or be found in unlawful possession of a lawful ballot outside the enclosure provided for voting; or knowingly hinder or delay the delivery of a lawful ballot to a person entitled to receive it; or give to an elector a ballot printed or written contrary to law; or forge or falsely make an official indorsement on a ballot.Whoever violates this section is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.21 | Prohibitions Concerning Absent Voter's Ballot.

Effective: May 2, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 3 - 126th General Assembly|(A) No person shall knowingly do any of the following:(1) Impersonate another, or make a false representation in order to obtain an absent voter's ballot;(2) Aid or abet a person to vote an absent voter's ballot illegally;(3) If the person is an election official, open, destroy, steal, mark, or mutilate any absent voter's ballot;(4) Aid or abet another person to open, destroy, steal, mark, or mutilate any absent voter's ballot after the ballot has been voted;(5) Delay the delivery of any absent voter's ballot with a view to preventing its arrival in time to be counted;(6) Hinder or attempt to hinder the delivery or counting of such absent voter's ballot;(7) Fail to forward to the appropriate election official an absent voter's ballot application entrusted to that person to so forward;(8) Fail to forward to the appropriate election official an absent voter's ballot application entrusted to that person to so forward within ten days after that application is completed or within such a time period that the failure to so forward the application disenfranchises the voter with respect to a particular election, whichever is earlier;(9) Except as authorized under Chapters 3509. and 3511. of the Revised Code, possess the absent voter's ballot of another.(B)(1) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, no person who receives compensation for soliciting persons to apply to vote by absent voter's ballots shall fail to forward to the appropriate election official an absent voter's ballot application entrusted to that person to so forward within ten days after that application is completed.(2) No person who receives compensation for soliciting persons to apply to vote by absent voter's ballots shall fail to forward to the appropriate election official an absent voter's ballot application entrusted to that person to so forward within such a time period that the failure to so forward the application disenfranchises the voter with respect to a particular election.(C) Whoever violates division (A) or (B) of this section is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree.(D) As used in this section, "person who receives compensation for soliciting persons to apply to vote by absent voter's ballots" includes any effort, for compensation, to provide absent voter's ballot applications or to assist persons in completing those applications or returning them to the director of the board of elections of the county in which the applicant's voting residence is located.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.22 | Prohibitions Concerning Printing of Ballots.

Effective: December 9, 1997|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 116 - 122nd General Assembly|(A) No person employed to print or engage in printing the official ballots shall knowingly do any of the following:(1) Print or cause or permit to be printed an official ballot other than the official ballot furnished by the board of elections;(2) Print or permit to be printed more ballots than are delivered to the board;(3) Appropriate, give, deliver, or knowingly permit to be taken away any of such ballots by a person other than the person authorized by law to do so;(4) Print such ballots on paper other than that provided in the contract with the board;(5) Package or deliver to the board fewer ballots than the number the board directed to be printed.(B) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.23 | Prohibitions Concerning Election Materials or Papers.

Effective: December 9, 1997|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 116 - 122nd General Assembly|(A) No printer or other person entrusted with the printing, custody, or delivery of registration cards or forms, ballots, blanks, pollbooks, cards of instruction, or other required papers shall do any of the following:(1) Knowingly and unlawfully open or permit to be opened a sealed package containing ballots or other printed forms;(2) Knowingly give or deliver to another not lawfully entitled to them, or unlawfully misplace or carry away, or knowingly fail to deliver, or knowingly destroy any such forms or packages of ballots, or a ballot, pollbooks, cards of instruction, or other required papers;(3) Negligently lose or permit to be taken from the printer or other entrusted person any of the materials described in division (A)(2) of this section.(B) No person entrusted with the preparation, custody, or delivery of marking devices shall do either of the following:(1) Unlawfully open or permit to be opened a sealed package containing marking devices, or give or deliver to another not lawfully entitled to them any such marking devices;(2) Unlawfully or carelessly use or negligently lose or permit to be taken from the printer or other entrusted person and fail to deliver or destroy any such marking devices.(C) Whoever violates division (A)(1) or (2) or (B) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Whoever violates division (A)(3) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.24 | Interference With Conduct of Election.

Effective: May 2, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 3 - 126th General Assembly|(A) No person shall do any of the following:(1) By force, fraud, or other improper means, obtain or attempt to obtain possession of the ballots, ballot boxes, or pollbooks;(2) Recklessly destroy any property used in the conduct of elections;(3) Attempt to intimidate an election officer, or prevent an election official from performing the official's duties;(4) Knowingly tear down, remove, or destroy any of the registration lists or sample ballots furnished by the board of elections at the polling place;(5) Loiter in or about a registration or polling place during registration or the casting and counting of ballots so as to hinder, delay, or interfere with the conduct of the registration or election;(6) Remove from the voting place the pencils, cards of instruction, supplies, or other conveniences furnished to enable the voter to mark the voter's ballot.(B) Whoever violates division (A)(1) or (2) of this section is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree. Whoever violates division (A)(3), (4), (5), or (6) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.25 | Inducing Illegal Voting.

Effective: December 9, 1997|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 116 - 122nd General Assembly|(A) No person shall knowingly do any of the following:(1) Counsel or advise another to vote at an election, knowing that the person is not a qualified voter;(2) Advise, aid, or assist another person to go or come into a precinct for the purpose of voting in it, knowing that such person is not qualified to vote in it;(3) Counsel, advise, or attempt to induce an election officer to permit a person to vote, knowing such person is not a qualified elector.(B) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.26 | Tampering With Ballots.

Effective: July 1, 1996|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly|No person shall fraudulently put a ballot or ticket into a ballot box; or knowingly and willfully vote a ballot other than an official ballot lawfully obtained by the person from the precinct election authorities; or fraudulently or deceitfully change a ballot of an elector, by which such elector is prevented from voting for such candidates or on an issue as the elector intends to do; or mark a ballot of an elector except as authorized by section 3505.24 of the Revised Code; or hand a marked ballot to an elector to vote, with intent to ascertain how the elector voted; or furnish a ballot to an elector who cannot read, knowingly informing the elector that it contains a name different from the one that is printed or written thereon, to induce the elector to vote contrary to the elector's intentions; or unduly delay or hinder an elector from applying for registration, registering, or from attempting to vote or voting; or knowingly print or distribute a ballot contrary to law.Whoever violates this section is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.27 | Possession of or Tampering With Voting Machine, Automatic Tabulating Equipment, or Marking Device Prohibited.

Effective: July 1, 1996|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly|No unauthorized person shall have in the person's possession any voting machine that may be owned or leased by any county or any of the parts or the keys thereof. No person shall tamper or attempt to tamper with, deface, impair the use of, destroy, or otherwise injure in any manner any voting machine.No unauthorized person shall have in the person's possession any marking device, automatic tabulating equipment, or any of the parts, appurtenances, or accessories thereof. No person shall tamper or attempt to tamper with, deface, impair the use of, destroy, or otherwise change or injure in any manner any marking device, automatic tabulating equipment, or any appurtenances or accessories thereof.Whoever violates this section is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.28 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.28 | False Signatures.

Effective: July 1, 1996|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly|No person, with intent to defraud or deceive, shall write or sign the name of another person to any document, petition, registration card, or other book or record authorized or required by Title XXXV of the Revised Code.Whoever violates this section is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.29 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.29 | Possession of False Records.

Effective: July 1, 1996|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly|No person shall have in the person's possession a falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited registration card, form, or list, pollbook, tally sheet, or list of election returns of an election, knowing it to be such, with intent to hinder, defeat, or prevent a fair expression of the popular will at such election.Whoever violates this section is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.31 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.31 | Failure of Officer of Law to Assist Election Officers.

Effective: February 25, 2014|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 109 - 130th General Assembly|No officer of the law shall fail to obey forthwith an order of the voting location manager and aid in enforcing a lawful order of the voting location manager at an election, against persons unlawfully congregating or loitering within one hundred feet of a polling place, hindering or delaying an elector from reaching or leaving the polling place, soliciting or attempting, within one hundred feet of the polling place, to influence an elector in casting the elector's vote, or interfering with the registration of voters or casting and counting of the ballots. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.32 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.32 | General Prohibition Concerning Election Officials.

Effective: December 9, 1997|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 116 - 122nd General Assembly|No official upon whom a duty is imposed by an election law for the violation of which no penalty is otherwise provided shall knowingly disobey such election law.Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.33 | Fraudulent Marking or Altering Ballots or Election Records.

Effective: July 1, 1996|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly|No person, from the time ballots are cast or counted until the time has expired for using them as evidence in a recount or contest of election, shall willfully and with fraudulent intent make any mark or alteration on any ballot; or inscribe, write, or cause to be inscribed or written in or upon a registration form or list, pollbook, tally sheet, or list, lawfully made or kept at an election, or in or upon a book or paper purporting to be such, or upon an election return, or upon a book or paper containing such return the name of a person not entitled to vote at such election or not voting thereat, or a fictitious name, or, within such time, wrongfully change, alter, erase, or tamper with a name, word, or figure contained in such pollbook, tally sheet, list, book, or paper; or falsify, mark, or write thereon with intent to defeat, hinder, or prevent a fair expression of the will of the people at such election.Whoever violates this section is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.34 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.34 | Prohibitions Concerning Destruction of Election Records.

Effective: July 1, 1996|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly|No person, from the time ballots are cast or voted until the time has expired for using them in a recount or as evidence in a contest of election, shall unlawfully destroy or attempt to destroy the ballots, or permit such ballots or a ballot box or pollbook used at an election to be destroyed; or destroy, falsify, mark, or write in a name on any such ballot that has been voted.Whoever violates this section is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.35 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.35 | Proxies Not to Be Given by Party Representatives - Impersonation of Representatives.

Effective: December 9, 1997|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 116 - 122nd General Assembly|No party committeeperson or party delegate or alternate chosen at an election, or a delegate or alternate appointed to a convention provided by law, shall give or issue a proxy or authority to another person to act or vote in that person's stead.No person shall knowingly or fraudulently act or vote or attempt to impersonate, act, or vote in place of that committeeperson, delegate, or alternate.Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.36 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.36 | Election Falsification.

Effective: December 9, 1997|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 116 - 122nd General Assembly|No person, either orally or in writing, on oath lawfully administered or in a statement made under penalty of election falsification, shall knowingly state a falsehood as to a material matter relating to an election in a proceeding before a court, tribunal, or election official, or in a matter in relation to which an oath or statement under penalty of election falsification is authorized by law, including a statement required for verifying or filing any declaration of candidacy, declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate, nominating petition, or other petition presented to or filed with the secretary of state, a board of elections, or any other public office for the purpose of becoming a candidate for any elective office, including the office of a political party, for the purpose of submitting a question or issue to the electors at an election, or for the purpose of forming a political party.Whoever violates this section is guilty of election falsification, a felony of the fifth degree.Every paper, card, or other document relating to any election matter that calls for a statement to be made under penalty of election falsification shall be accompanied by the following statement in bold face capital letters: "Whoever commits election falsification is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree."
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.37 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.37 | Disobedience of Subpoena Concerning Violation of Election Laws.

Effective: September 29, 2007|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly|(A) No person having been subpoenaed or ordered to appear before a grand jury, court, board, or officer in a proceeding or prosecution upon a complaint, information, affidavit, or indictment for an offense under an election law shall do either of the following: (1) Fail to appear or, having appeared, refuse to answer a question pertinent to the matter under inquiry or investigation;(2) Refuse to produce, upon reasonable notice, any material, books, papers, documents, or records in that person's possession or under that person's control.(B) Whoever violates division (A) of this section, unless the violator personally appears before the grand jury, court, board, or officer and asserts the protection of the violator's constitutional rights, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.38 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.38 | Illegally Influencing Voters While Performing Election Duties.

Effective: June 1, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 3 - 126th General Assembly|(A) No election official, observer, deputy sheriff, special deputy sheriff, or police officer, while performing that person's duties related to the casting of votes, shall do either of the following:(1) Wear any badge, sign, or other insignia or thing indicating that person's preference for any candidate or for any question submitted at an election;(2) Influence or attempt to influence any voter to cast the voter's ballot for or against any candidate or issue submitted at an election.(B) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.39 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.39 | Second Conviction Under Election Laws.

Effective: December 9, 1997|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 116 - 122nd General Assembly|Any person convicted of a violation of any provision of Title XXXV of the Revised Code, who is again convicted of a violation of any such provision, whether such conviction is for the same offense or not, is on such second conviction guilty of a felony of the fourth degree, and in addition, shall be disfranchised.
Ohio Rev Code § 3599.40 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 35 | Elections|Chapter 3599 | Offenses and Penalties|Section 3599.40 | General Penalty.

Effective: September 5, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 326 - 129th General Assembly|Except as otherwise provided in section 3599.39 of the Revised Code, whoever violates any provision of Title XXXV of the Revised Code, unless otherwise provided in such title, and whoever violates division (D) of section 9.03 of the Revised Code, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.