Ohio Administrative Code › Title 111:3 - Elections › Chapter 111:3-5 - Voter Registration › Section 111:3-5-07 - Voter registration - bureau of motor vehicles

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) The registrar
			 of motor vehicles shall designate an employee for the deputy
			 registrar services section to be in charge of and responsible for voter
			 registration within the bureau of motor vehicles. The
			 designated employee may 
								identify
			 other employees within the section to assist in voter registration. The
			 designated employee shall provide, in cooperation with
			 the secretary of state, a training program and materials for training in voter
			 registration for deputy registrars and their employees.
(B) The office manager appointed by each
			 deputy registrar shall be in charge of and responsible for voter registration
			 within that agency unless the deputy registrar notifies the registrar in
			 writing that  another
			 individual is designated to serve in that
			 capacity.
(C) When any person
			 applies for a driver's license, commercial driver's license, a state of Ohio
			 identification card, 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 employee of the registrar or deputy registrar
			 receiving the application shall offer the applicant the opportunity to register
			 to vote or update the applicant's voter registration if the applicant is
			 eligible and wishes to do so, and assistance in completing the voter
			 registration form if so requested.
The applicant shall not be required to fill out any portion of
				the voter registration form that requests information that duplicates
				information on the application for a license, identification card or
				endorsement. Such information shall be printed on the form by the
				registrar or deputy registrar.
(D) The registrar or deputy registrar shall
			 enter the date each registration application, change of name notice, or change
			 of address form is received. The date may be entered by use of a date stamp or
			 may be typed or printed upon the document. The date stamp or date entry shall
			 not disclose the identity of the office 
								that entered
			 it.
(E) The registrar or deputy
			 registrar shall send any completed registration application, change of
			 residence notice, or change of name notice to the board of elections of the
			 county in which the office of the registrar or deputy registrar is located,
			 within five days after accepting the application or notice.
(F)
(1)
			 Each deputy registrar shall record and report to the
			 registrar all of the following:
									.
(a)
										The number of applicants for licenses served by the deputy
			 registrar;
(b)
										The number of voter registrations, change of address
			 notices, and change of name notices completed by the deputy registrar and
			 transmitted to the board of elections;
(c)
										The number of
			 voter registration applications declined by the deputy
			 registrar;
(d)
										Upon the request of the registrar, any additional
			 information required by the secretary of state to comply with the National
			 Voter Registration Act of 1993,
			 52 U.S.C.A.
			 20501 et seq., as amended on January 6,
			 1996.