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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.03 | Residence for Soldiers in National Home for Such Soldiers.

Effective:
August 22, 1995
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 99 - 121st General Assembly
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 township shall have their lawful residence in the county and township in which such home is located.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.04 | Residence for Inmates of a Public or Private Institution.

Effective:
August 22, 1995
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 99 - 121st General Assembly
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 residence in the county, city, village and township in which said institution is located provided, that the lawful residence of a qualified elector who is an inmate in such an institution for temporary treatment only, shall be the residence from which he entered such institution.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.06 | Registration as Elector - Circulation or Signing of Petition.

Effective:
June 21, 2013
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 47 - 130th General Assembly
(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 sign any petition, unless the person is registered as an elector and resides in a precinct in which the candidacy or issue that is the subject of the petition will appear on the ballot.
(C)(1)(a) Except for a nominating petition for presidential electors, no person shall be entitled to circulate any petition unless the person is a resident of this state and is at least eighteen years of age.
(b) No person shall be entitled to circulate a nominating petition for presidential electors unless the person is at least eighteen years of age.
(2) All election officials, in determining the residence of a person circulating a petition under division (C)(1) of this section, 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, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning.
(b) A person shall not be considered to have lost the person's residence who leaves the person's home and goes into another state for temporary purposes only, with the intention of returning.
(c) A person shall not be considered to have gained a residence in any county of this state into which the person comes for temporary purposes only, without the intention of making that county the permanent place of abode.
(d) If a person removes to another state with the intention of making that state the person's residence, the person shall be considered to have lost the person's residence in this state.
(e) Except as otherwise provided in division (C)(2)(f) of this section, if a person removes from this state and continuously resides outside this state for a period of four years or more, the person shall be considered to have lost the person's residence in this state, notwithstanding the fact that the person may entertain an intention to return at some future period.
(f) If a person removes from this state to engage in the services of the United States government, the person shall not be considered to have lost the person's residence in this state during the period of that service, and likewise should the person enter the employment of the state, the place where that person resided at the time of the person's removal shall be considered to be the person's place of residence.
(g) If a person goes into another state and, while there, exercises the right of a citizen by voting, the person shall be considered to have lost the person's residence in this state.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.07 | Qualification for Registration.

Effective:
March 23, 1972
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 460 - 109th General Assembly
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 length of residence to qualify him as an elector shall, unless otherwise disqualified, be entitled to be registered as an elector in such precinct. When once registered, an elector shall not be required to register again unless his registration is canceled.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.08 | Registration Equipment, Supplies and Rules.

Effective:
May 31, 1977
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 125 - 112th General Assembly
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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.09 | Electronic Transfer of Voter Registration Database Changes.

Effective:
September 29, 2007
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly
(A)(1) The secretary of state shall adopt rules for the electronic transmission by boards of elections, designated agencies, offices of deputy registrars of motor vehicles, public high schools and vocational schools, public libraries, and offices of county treasurers, where applicable, of name and residence changes for voter registration records in the statewide voter registration database.
(2) The secretary of state shall adopt rules for the purpose of improving the speed of processing new voter registrations that permit information from a voter registration application received by a designated agency or an office of deputy registrar of motor vehicles to be made available electronically, in addition to requiring the original voter registration application to be transmitted to the applicable board of elections under division (E)(2) of section 3503.10 or section 3503.11 of the Revised Code.
(B) Rules adopted under division (A) of this section shall do all of the following:
(1) Prohibit any direct electronic connection between a designated agency, office of deputy registrar of motor vehicles, public high school or vocational school, public library, or office of a county treasurer and the statewide voter registration database;
(2) Require any updated voter registration information to be verified by the secretary of state or a board of elections before the information is added to the statewide voter registration database for the purpose of modifying an existing voter registration;
(3) Require each designated agency or office of deputy registrar of motor vehicles that transmits voter registration information electronically to transmit an identifier for data relating to each new voter registration that shall be used by the secretary of state or a board of elections to match the electronic data to the original voter registration application.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.11 | Registering to Vote With Registrar of Motor Vehicles.

Effective:
March 20, 2014
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 200 - 130th General Assembly
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 under Chapter 4506. or 4507. of the Revised Code, the registrar of motor vehicles or deputy registrar shall offer the applicant the opportunity to register to vote or to update the applicant's voter registration. The registrar of motor vehicles or deputy registrar also shall make available to all other customers voter registration applications and change of residence and change of name, forms, but is not required to offer assistance to these customers in completing a voter registration application or other form.
The deputy registrar shall send any registration application or any change of residence or change of name form that was completed and submitted in paper form to the deputy registrar to the board of elections of the county in which the office of the deputy registrar is located, within five days after accepting the application or other form. The registrar shall send any completed registration application received at the bureau of motor vehicles headquarters location and any completed change of residence or change of name form processed electronically in systems or programs operated and maintained by the bureau of motor vehicles to the secretary of state within five days after accepting the application or other form.
The registrar shall collect from each deputy registrar through the reports filed under division (J) of section 4503.03 of the Revised Code and transmit to the secretary of state information on the number of voter registration applications and change of residence or change of name forms completed or declined, and any additional information required by the secretary of state to comply with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. No information relating to an applicant's decision to decline to register or update the applicant's voter registration at the office of the registrar or deputy registrar may be used for any purpose other than voter registration record-keeping required by the secretary of state, and all such information shall be kept confidential.
The secretary of state shall prescribe voter registration applications and change of residence and change of name forms for use by the bureau of motor vehicles. The bureau of motor vehicles shall supply all of its deputy registrars with a sufficient number of voter registration applications and change of residence and change of name forms.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.111 | Registering in Another County.

Effective:
January 1, 1995
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 300 - 120th General Assembly
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 county of residence.
The director of any board of elections registering a person under this section shall send the completed registration form of that person to the director of the board of elections of the county of residence, who shall enter the form in the proper registration files and shall promptly send an acknowledgment notice as prescribed by the secretary of state to the registrant at the new address listed on the registration form.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.12 | Duplicate Registration - Advertising Registration Opportunities - Registration Places to Be Accessible.

Effective:
April 6, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 281 - 134th General Assembly
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 publish notices in one or more newspapers of general circulation advertising the places, dates, times, methods of registration, and voter qualifications for registration.
The board shall establish a schedule or program to assure to the extent reasonably possible that, on or before November 1, 1980, all registration places shall be free of barriers that would impede the ingress and egress of persons with disabilities. Entrances shall be level or shall be provided with a nonskid ramp of not over eight per cent gradient, and doors shall be a minimum of thirty-two inches wide. Registration places located at polling places shall, however, comply with the requirements of section 3501.29 of the Revised Code for the elimination of barriers.
As used in this section, "persons with disabilities" means persons who have lost the use of one or both legs, one or both arms, or any combination thereof, or are blind or so severely impaired as to be unable to move about without the aid of crutches or a wheelchair.
Last updated March 10, 2023 at 12:11 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.13 | Registration Forms - Records - Electronic Data Processing System.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
(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 149.43 of the Revised Code.
(2) None of the following are subject to disclosure under division (A)(1) of this section:
(a) An elector's full or partial social security number, driver's license or state identification card number, telephone number, or electronic mail address;
(b) A confidential voter registration record, as described in section 111.44 of the Revised Code;
(c) The address of a designated public service worker, if the designated public service worker has submitted a redaction request to the board of elections under section 149.45 of the Revised Code;
(d) Any other information that is prohibited from being disclosed by state or federal law.
(B) A board of elections may use a legible digitized signature list of voter signatures, copied from the signatures on the registration forms in a form and manner prescribed by the secretary of state, provided that the board includes the required voter registration information in the statewide voter registration database established under section 3503.15 of the Revised Code, and provided that the precinct election officials have computer printouts at the polls prepared in the manner required under section 3503.23 of the Revised Code.
Last updated September 6, 2023 at 11:11 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.153 | Database Website.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
(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 regarding a registered elector shall be made available on the web site:
(a) The elector's name;
(b) The elector's birth date;
(c) The elector's current residence address;
(d) The elector's precinct number;
(e) The elector's voter registration date, as described in division (C)(9) of section 3503.15 of the Revised Code;
(f) The elector's voting history, as described in division (C)(10) of section 3503.15 of the Revised Code;
(g) The elector's last activity date, as described in division (C)(11) of section 3503.15 of the Revised Code.
(2) During the thirty days before the day of a primary or general election, the web site interface of the statewide voter registration database shall permit an elector to search for the polling location at which that elector may cast a ballot.
(3) No information in the statewide voter registration database that is exempt from disclosure under division (A)(2) of section 3503.13 of the Revised Code shall be made available on the web site.
(B)(1) The secretary of state shall establish, by rule adopted under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, a process for boards of elections to notify the secretary of state of changes in the locations of precinct polling places for the purpose of updating the information made available on the secretary of state's web site under division (A)(2) of this section. Those rules shall require a board of elections, during the thirty days before the day of a primary or general election, to notify the secretary of state within one business day of any change to the location of a precinct polling place within the county.
(2) During the thirty days before the day of a primary or general election, not later than one business day after receiving a notification from a county pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section that the location of a precinct polling place has changed, the secretary of state shall update that information on the secretary of state's web site for the purpose of division (A)(2) of this section.
Last updated September 12, 2023 at 9:12 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.17 | Precinct Boundary Changes.

Effective:
May 31, 1977
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 125 - 112th General Assembly
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 registration of an elector shall not be invalidated by such alteration or transfer nor shall the right of any registered elector to vote be prejudiced by any error in making out the certified list of registered voters.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.18 | Cancellation of Registration.

Effective:
September 13, 2016
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 63 - 131st General Assembly
(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 another state during the period beginning on the date of the most recent filing and ending on the day before the date of the current filing. If the director is notified of the death of such a person after the director has filed the report for the period during which the person died, the director shall file with the secretary of state a supplemental report containing that information concerning the person not later than one month after the director is notified of the person's death.
(2) The secretary of state and the director of health shall jointly establish a secure electronic system through which they shall exchange the information described in division (A)(1) of this section regarding the death of a registered elector.
(B) At least once each month, each probate judge in this state shall file with the board of elections the names and residence addresses of all persons over eighteen years of age who have been adjudicated incompetent for the purpose of voting, as provided in section 5122.301 of the Revised Code.
(C) At least once each month the clerk of the court of common pleas shall file with the board the names and residence addresses of all persons who have been convicted during the previous month of crimes that would disfranchise such persons under existing laws of the state. Reports of conviction of crimes under the laws of the United States that would disfranchise an elector and that are provided to the secretary of state by any United States attorney shall be forwarded by the secretary of state to the appropriate board of elections.
(D) Upon receiving a report required by this section, the board of elections shall promptly cancel the registration of each elector named in the report in accordance with section 3503.21 of the Revised Code. If the report contains a residence address of an elector in a county other than the county in which the board of elections is located, the director shall promptly send a copy of the report to the appropriate board of elections, which shall cancel the registration in accordance with that section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.191 | Uniformed Services Voters - Procedures for Receiving Voter Registration Forms.

Effective:
October 27, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 224 - 129th General Assembly
(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 secretary of state or the board of elections of the county in which the person's voting residence is located.
(B) The procedures shall allow such a person to express a preference for the manner in which the person will receive the requested voter registration forms, whether by mail, electronically, or in person. The registration forms shall be transmitted by the preferred method. If the requestor does not express a preferred method, the registration forms shall be delivered via standard mail.
(C) The secretary of state shall, by rule, establish and maintain reasonable procedures necessary to protect the security, confidentiality, and integrity of personal information that is confidential under state or federal law that is collected, stored, or otherwise used in the electronic voter registration form request process established under this section. To the extent practicable, the procedures shall protect the security and integrity of the electronic voter registration form request process and protect the privacy of the identity and personal data of the person when such forms are requested, processed, and sent.
(D) In establishing procedures under this section, the secretary of state shall designate at least one means of electronic communication for use by such persons to request voter registration forms, for use by the state to send voter registration forms to those who have requested electronic delivery, and for providing public election and voting information. Such designated means of electronic communication shall be identified on all information and instructional materials that accompany balloting materials.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.23 | Precinct Official Registration List.

Effective:
September 8, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 359 - 131st General Assembly
(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, addresses, and political party whose ballot the elector voted in the most recent primary election within the current year and the immediately preceding two calendar years, of all qualified registered voters in the precinct, except as otherwise provided in section 111.44 of the Revised Code. All the names, insofar as practicable, shall be arranged in alphabetical order. The lists may be prepared either in sheet form on one side of the paper or in electronic form, at the discretion of the board. Each precinct list shall be headed "Register of Voters," and under the heading shall be indicated the district or ward and precinct.
Appended to each precinct list shall be attached the names of the members of the board and the name of the director. A sufficient number of such lists shall be provided for distribution to the candidates, political parties, or organized groups that apply for them. The board shall have each precinct list available at the board for viewing by the public during normal business hours. The board shall ensure that, by the opening of the polls on the day of a general or primary election, each precinct has a paper copy of the registration list of voters in that precinct.
(B) On the day of a general or primary election, precinct election officials shall do both of the following:
(1) By the time the polls open, conspicuously post and display at the polling place one copy of the registration list of voters in that precinct in an area of the polling place that is easily accessible;
(2) At 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. place a mark, on the official registration list posted at the polling place, before the name of those registered voters who have voted.
(C) Notwithstanding division (B) of section 3501.35 of the Revised Code, any person may enter the polling place for the sole purpose of reviewing the official registration list posted in accordance with division (B) of this section, provided that the person does not engage in conduct that would constitute harassment in violation of the election law, as defined in section 3501.90 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.25 | Investigations Regarding the Registration.

Effective:
August 22, 1995
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 99 - 121st General Assembly
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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.26 | Custody of Registration Forms, Records and Lists.

Effective:
September 8, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 359 - 131st General Assembly
(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 is open for business; but no such copying shall be permitted during the period of time commencing twenty-one days before an election and ending on the eleventh day after an election if such copying will, in the opinion of the board, interfere with the necessary work of the board. Except as provided in section 111.44 of the Revised Code, the board shall keep in convenient form and available for public inspection a correct set of the registration lists of all precincts in the county.
(B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, and except as provided in section 111.44 of the Revised Code, the board of elections shall maintain and make available for public inspection and copying at a reasonable cost all records concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of voter registration lists, including the names and addresses of all registered electors sent confirmation notices and whether or not the elector responded to the confirmation notice. The board shall maintain all records described in this division for a period of two years.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.30 | Correction of Registration Form.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
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 residence, correct his registration form. The board may correct all errors occurring in the registration of electors when it finds that the errors subject to correction were not of fraudulent intent.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3503 | Voters - Qualifications; Registration › Section 3503.33 | Prior Registration in Another County or State - Cancellation Authorization.

Effective:
August 22, 1995
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 99 - 121st General Assembly
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 secretary of state.
The director of the board of elections shall mail all such authorizations to the board of elections or comparable agency of the proper state and county. Upon the receipt of this authorization from the forwarding county, the director of a board of elections in Ohio, upon a comparison of the elector's signature with the elector's signature as it appears on the registration files, shall remove the elector's registration from the files, and place it with the cancellation authorization in a separate file which shall be kept for a period of two calendar years. The board shall notify the elector at the present address as shown on the cancellation authorization that his registration has been canceled.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3504 | Presidential Ballots - Former Residents › Section 3504.01 | Voting in Presidential Elections by Voters Who Have Moved From Ohio.

Effective:
August 15, 2012
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 295 - 129th General Assembly
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 to vote in the state to which that citizen has moved that citizen's residence, and who, because of that citizen's removal from this state, is not entitled to vote for the offices of president and vice-president or for presidential and vice-presidential electors in the state of that citizen's current residence may be entitled to vote in this state, in the precinct in which that citizen's voting residence was located at the time the citizen moved from this state, for presidential and vice-presidential electors but for no other offices if the citizen meets all of the following conditions:
(A) The citizen otherwise possesses the substantive qualifications to vote in this state, except the requirements of residence and registration.
(B) The citizen complies with sections 3504.01 to 3504.06 of the Revised Code.
(C) The citizen completes a certificate of intent to vote in a presidential election under section 3504.02 of the Revised Code under penalty of election falsification.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3504 | Presidential Ballots - Former Residents › Section 3504.02 | Certificate of Intent to Vote.

Effective:
September 8, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 359 - 131st General Assembly
(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 certificate of intent shall be completed in duplicate on a form prescribed by the secretary of state that may be obtained and filed personally in the office of the board of elections of the county in which such person last resided before removal from this state, or mailed to such board of elections.
(B) Immediately following the spaces on the certificate for inserting information as requested by the secretary of state, the following statement shall be printed: "I declare under penalty of election falsification that the statements herein contained are true to the best of my knowledge and belief; that I am legally qualified to vote; that I am not registered to vote in any other state; and that I have not voted in an election in any other state since removing myself from the state of Ohio.
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Signature of applicant
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Date
WHOEVER COMMITS ELECTION FALSIFICATION IS GUILTY OF A FELONY OF THE FIFTH DEGREE."
(C) If the applicant has a confidential voter registration record, as described in section 111.44 of the Revised Code, the applicant may include the applicant's program participant identification number instead of the applicant's residence address or precinct in the certificate of intent.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3504 | Presidential Ballots - Former Residents › Section 3504.04 | List of Former Resident Who Have Filed Certificates of Intent to Vote at Polling Places.

Effective:
September 8, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 359 - 131st General Assembly
(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 address, entitled to vote at such polling place. Those persons whose names appear on the list of former resident voters, and who have otherwise complied with sections 3504.01 to 3504.06 of the Revised Code, shall then be entitled to vote for presidential and vice-presidential electors only at their polling place on election day or by absent voter's ballots. Such voter who votes at that voter's polling place on election day shall sign that voter's name in the poll book or poll list followed by, "Former Resident's Presidential Ballot." Qualified former residents shall be entitled to cast absent voter's ballots for presidential and vice-presidential electors.
(B) The list of persons described in division (A) of this section shall not include any person who has a confidential voter registration record, as described in section 111.44 of the Revised Code. Such a person may vote for presidential and vice- presidential electors only by casting absent voter's ballots.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3504 | Presidential Ballots - Former Residents › Section 3504.05 | Notification of New State of Residence Certificates of Intent to Vote in Ohio.

Effective:
August 15, 2012
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 295 - 129th General Assembly
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 such certificate the secretary of state shall immediately notify the chief elections officer of the state of each applicant's prior residence of the fact that such applicant has declared his intention to vote for presidential and vice-presidential electors in this state.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3504 | Presidential Ballots - Former Residents › Section 3504.06 | Penalty.

Effective:
July 1, 1996
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly
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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3505 | General and Special Election Ballots › Section 3505.02 | Former Names Printed in Parentheses on Ballot.

Effective:
January 1, 1958
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 501 - 102nd General Assembly
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.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3505 | General and Special Election Ballots › Section 3505.021 | Candidates With Identical Given Names and Surnames.

Effective:
March 23, 1981
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1062 - 113th General Assembly
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. Immediately after it becomes known that two or more persons with the same given name and surname are to be candidates on the same ballot for the same office, the director of the board of elections for local, municipal, county, general, or special elections, or the director of the board of elections of the most populous county for district, general, or special elections, or the secretary of state for statewide general and special elections shall notify the persons with identical given name and surnames that the names of such persons will be differentiated on the ballot. If one of the candidates is an incumbent who is a candidate to succeed himself for the office he occupies, he shall have first choice of the name by which he is designated on the ballot. If an incumbent does not make a choice within two days after notification or if none of the candidates is an incumbent, the board of elections within three days after notification shall designate the names by which the candidates are identified on the ballot. In case of a district candidate the board of elections in the most populous county of the district shall make the determination. In case of statewide candidates, or in case any board of elections fails to make a designation within three days after notification, the secretary of state shall immediately make the determination.
"Notification" as required by this section shall be by the clerk of the board of elections or secretary of state by special delivery mail or telegram at the candidate's address listed in his declaration of candidacy or petition of candidacy.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3505 | General and Special Election Ballots › Section 3505.04 | Nonpartisan Ballot.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 80 - 134th General Assembly
On the nonpartisan ballot shall be printed the names of all nonpartisan candidates for election to the office of judge of a municipal court, county court, or court of common pleas, the office of member of the state board of education, the office of member of a board of education, municipal or township offices for municipal corporations and townships in which primary elections are not held for nomination of candidates by political parties, and municipal offices of municipal corporations having charters which provide for separate ballots for elections for such municipal offices.
Such ballots shall have printed across the top, and below the stubs, "Official Nonpartisan Ballot."
The order in which the offices are listed on the ballot shall be prescribed by, and certified to each board of elections by, the secretary of state; provided that the office of member of the state board of education shall be listed first on the ballot, then county judicial offices, followed by municipal and township offices, and by offices of member of a board of education, in the order stated.
Within the rectangular space within which the title of each judicial office is printed on the ballot and immediately below such title shall be printed the date of the commencement of the term of the office, if a full term, as follows: "Full term commencing _______(Date)_______," or the date of the end of the term of the office, if an unexpired term, as follows: "Unexpired term ending _______(Date)________"
The secretary of state shall prescribe the information and directions to the voter to be printed on the ballot within the rectangular space in which the title of office of member of the state board of education appears.
Within the rectangular space within which the title of each office for member of a board of education is printed on the ballot shall be printed "For Member of Board of Education," and the number to be elected, directions to the voter as to voting for one, two, or more, and, if the office to be voted for is member of a board of education of a city school district, words shall be printed in said space on the ballot to indicate whether candidates are to be elected from subdistricts or at large.
The names of all nonpartisan candidates for an office shall be arranged in a group under the title of that office, and shall be rotated and printed on the ballot as provided in section 3505.03 of the Revised Code.
No name or designation of any political party nor any words, designations, or emblems descriptive of a candidate or the candidate's political affiliation, or indicative of the method by which such candidate was nominated or certified, shall be printed under or after any nonpartisan candidate's name which is printed on the ballot.
Last updated July 14, 2021 at 11:09 AM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3505 | General and Special Election Ballots › Section 3505.063 | Proposed Constitutional Amendments - Official Explanation and Arguments.

Effective:
September 29, 2007
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 119 - 127th General Assembly
(A) When the general assembly adopts a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment, it may, by resolution, designate a group of members who voted in support of the resolution to prepare arguments for the proposed amendment, and a group of members who voted in opposition to the resolution to prepare arguments against the proposed amendment. If no members voted in opposition to the resolution, or if the general assembly chooses not to designate a group of members to prepare arguments for the proposed amendment or chooses not to designate a group of members to prepare arguments against the proposed amendment, the Ohio ballot board shall prepare or designate a group of persons to prepare the relevant arguments. All arguments prepared under this division shall be filed with the secretary of state not later than eighty days before the date of the election. No argument shall exceed three hundred words.
(B)(1) If the group of members of the general assembly or other group of persons designated under division (A) of this section fail to prepare and file their arguments in support of or in opposition to the proposed amendment by the eightieth day before the date of the election, the secretary of state shall notify the Ohio ballot board that those arguments have not been so prepared and filed. The board then shall prepare the missing arguments or designate a group of persons to prepare those arguments. All arguments prepared under this division shall be filed with the secretary of state not later than seventy-five days before the date of the election. No argument shall exceed three hundred words.
(2) If the Ohio ballot board fails to provide for the preparation of missing arguments under division (B)(1) of this section after being notified by the secretary of state that one or more arguments have not been timely prepared and filed, the positions of the four appointed members of the board shall be considered vacant, and new members shall be appointed in the manner provided for original appointments.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3505 | General and Special Election Ballots › Section 3505.07 | Separate Ballots for Candidates, Question, or Issue.

Effective:
February 25, 2014
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 109 - 130th General Assembly
(A) If the board of elections, by a unanimous vote of its members, or if the secretary of state, in the secretary of state's sole discretion, finds it impracticable to place the names of candidates for any office of a minor political subdivision in the county or the wording of any question or issue to be voted upon in such minor political subdivision on the ballots under sections 3505.01 to 3505.09 of the Revised Code, then such board may, or at the direction of the secretary of state shall, provide separate ballots for the candidates, question, or issue.
(B) If the secretary of state, in the secretary of state's sole discretion, determines that it is impracticable to place the names of candidates for any office or the wording for any question or issue to be voted upon on the ballot when the candidates, question, issue, or wording for the question or issue was ordered onto the ballot by a court of competent jurisdiction and the ballots have been printed prior to the court order, the board of elections, at the direction of the secretary of state, shall provide separate ballots for the candidates, question, or issue.
(C) All separate ballots provided for in this section shall conform in quality of paper, style of printing, form of ballot, arrangement of names, and in all other ways, in so far as practicable, with the provisions relating to the printing of the general official ballot.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3505 | General and Special Election Ballots › Section 3505.071 | Ballots in Joint County School Districts.

Effective:
June 29, 1974
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 544 - 110th General Assembly
In the event that a school district extends into one or more counties, upon the filing of any resolution or candidate's petitions in the county containing the most populous portion of the school district, such county board of elections shall, within ten days after such filing, send to all other boards of elections of counties having territory within the school district, notice of such filing. The county containing the most populous portion of the school district shall furnish all ballots for school questions and issues for the school district.
In the event that a regional transit authority includes territory in more than one county, any resolution, petition, or other action providing for a referendum or other election concerning the transit authority shall be filed with the board of elections of the county containing the most populous portion of the regional transit authority, and such board of elections shall, within ten days after such filing, send to the boards of elections of all other counties having territory within the regional transit authority notice of such filing and shall furnish all ballots for such election.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 35 | Elections › Chapter 3505 | General and Special Election Ballots › Section 3505.09 | Separate Ballots for Each Precinct and District.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
In election precincts composed of a township or a part thereof, and a municipal corporation or a part thereof, separate ballots for each precinct shall be provided for all elections, so as to enable electors residing in such precincts to cast their votes for the proper candidates in such precincts. Separate ballots shall be provided for each district portion of each precinct which shall contain the names of the candidates for members of the board of education for whom the electors residing in such district are entitled to vote. In the case of overlapping school districts, the ballots shall be so printed as to plainly identify each district for which candidates are to be chosen.