Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3505 - General And Special Election Ballots

• Section 3505.01 - Forms Of Official Ballots.
  (A) (1) Except as otherwise provided in section 3519.08 of the Revised Code, on the seventieth day before the day of the next general...
• Section 3505.02 - Former Names Printed In Parentheses On Ballot.
  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...
• Section 3505.021 - Candidates With Identical Given Names And Surnames.
  In the event two or more persons with identical given names and surnames run for the same office in a general or special election...
• Section 3505.03 - Office Type Ballots.
  On the office type ballot shall be printed the names of all candidates for election to offices, except judicial offices, who were nominated at...
• Section 3505.04 - Nonpartisan Ballot.
  On the nonpartisan ballot shall be printed the names of all nonpartisan candidates for election to judicial office, office of member of the state...
• Section 3505.06 - Questions And Issues Ballot.
  (A) On the questions and issues ballot shall be printed all questions and issues to be submitted at any one election together with the...
• Section 3505.061 - Ohio Ballot Board.
  (A) The Ohio ballot board, as authorized by Section 1 of Article XVI, Ohio Constitution, shall consist of the secretary of state and four...
• Section 3505.062 - Ohio Ballot Board Duties.
  The Ohio ballot board shall do all of the following: (A) Examine, within ten days after its receipt, each written initiative petition received from...
• Section 3505.063 - Proposed Constitutional Amendments - Official Explanation And Arguments.
  (A) When the general assembly adopts a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment, it may, by resolution, designate a group of members who voted in...
• Section 3505.07 - Separate Ballots For Candidates, Question, Or Issue.
  (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...
• Section 3505.071 - Ballots In Joint County School Districts.
  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...
• Section 3505.08 - Ballot Material - Stubs.
  (A) Ballots shall be provided by the board of elections for all general and special elections. The ballots shall be printed with black ink...
• Section 3505.09 - Separate Ballots For Each Precinct And District.
  In election precincts composed of a township or a part thereof, and a municipal corporation or a part thereof, separate ballots for each precinct...
• Section 3505.10 - Presidential Ballot.
  (A) On the presidential ballot below the stubs at the top of the face of the ballot shall be printed "Official Presidential Ballot" centered...
• Section 3505.11 - Quantity Of Ballots To Be Provided.
  (A) The ballots, with the stubs attached, shall be bound into tablets for each precinct, which tablets shall contain at least one per cent...
• Section 3505.12 - Type Size And Voting Instructions.
  The board of elections shall cause to be printed in English in twelve point type on paper or cardboard instructions as issued by the...
• Section 3505.13 - Contract For Printing Ballots.
  A contract for the printing of ballots involving a cost in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars shall not be let until after five days'...
• Section 3505.14 - Printed Proofs Of Ballot.
  After the letting of the contract for the printing of the ballots as provided in section 3505.13 of the Revised Code, the board of...
• Section 3505.15 - Ballot Packaging.
  The board of elections shall make adequate provision for the inspection of the printing of the ballots. The person to whom the contract for...
• Section 3505.16 - Ballot Boxes And Supplies Placement At Polling Place.
  Before the opening of the polls, the package of supplies and the ballot box shall be opened in the presence of the precinct officials....
• Section 3505.17 - Lost Or Destroyed Ballots Or Supplies.
  If by accident or casualty the ballots or other required papers, lists, or supplies are lost or destroyed, or in case none are delivered...
• Section 3505.18 - Procedure When Elector Entered Polling Place.
  (A) (1) When an elector appears in a polling place to vote, the elector shall announce to the precinct election officials the elector's full...
• Section 3505.181 - Eligibility To Cast Provisional Ballot - Procedure.
  (A) All of the following individuals shall be permitted to cast a provisional ballot at an election: (1) An individual who declares that the...
• Section 3505.182 - Provisional Ballot Affirmation - Verification.
  Each individual who casts a provisional ballot under section 3505.181 of the Revised Code shall execute a written affirmation. The form of the written...
• Section 3505.183 - Testing And Counting Of Provisional Ballots - Rejection.
  (A) When the ballot boxes are delivered to the board of elections from the precincts, the board shall separate the provisional ballot envelopes from...
• Section 3505.19 - Challenge Of Elector.
  Any person registered as an elector may be challenged by any qualified elector as to the registered elector's right to vote prior to the...
• Section 3505.20 - Challenge Of Elector At Polling Place.
  Any person offering to vote may be challenged at the polling place by any precinct election official. If the board of elections has ruled...
• Section 3505.21 - Appointment Of Challengers And Witnesses.
  (A) As used in this section, "during the casting of the ballots" includes any time during which a board of elections permits an elector...
• Section 3505.22 - Impersonating An Elector.
  If any precinct officer has reason to believe that a person is impersonating an elector, that person, before being given a ballot, shall be...
• Section 3505.23 - Time Limit For Occupying Voting Compartment - Errors In Voting - Marking Ballot.
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, no voter shall be allowed to occupy a voting compartment or use a voting machine more than...
• Section 3505.24 - Providing Assistance To Blind, Disabled Or Illiterate Electors.
  Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, any elector who does both of the following may be accompanied in the voting...
• Section 3505.25 - [Repealed].
  Added by 127th General Assemblych.105, SB 286, §1, eff. 2/27/2008; repealed effective 5/1/2008. Former section Renumbered as § 3599.07 by 127th General Assemblych.105, SB...
• Section 3505.26 - Closing Polls Procedures.
  At the time for closing the polls, the voting location manager shall by proclamation announce that the polls are closed. The precinct election officials...
• Section 3505.27 - Counting And Tallying Of Ballots.
  Unless otherwise ordered by the secretary of state or the board of elections, the counting and tallying of ballots shall be conducted according to...
• Section 3505.28 - Rejection Of Ballots.
  No ballot shall be counted which is marked contrary to law, except that no ballot shall be rejected for any technical error unless it...
• Section 3505.29 - Precinct Election Officials Not To Separate Or Leave Until Counting Completed.
  From the time the ballot box is opened and the count of ballots begun until the ballots are counted and certificates of votes cast...
• Section 3505.30 - Summary Statement Of Results.
  When the results of the ballots have been ascertained, such results shall be embodied in a summary statement to be prepared by the precinct...
• Section 3505.31 - Sealing Ballots, Pollbooks, Poll Lists Or Signature Pollbooks, Tally Sheets.
  When the results of the voting in a polling place on the day of an election have been determined and entered upon the proper...
• Section 3505.32 - Canvass Of Election Returns.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section, not earlier than the eleventh day or later than the fifteenth day after...
• Section 3505.33 - Declaration Of Election Results - Tie Votes - Abstracts And Report Of Votes.
  When the board of elections has completed the canvass of the election returns from the precincts in its county, in which electors were entitled...
• Section 3505.34 - Canvass Of Abstracts Of Votes For State Executive Offices By General Assembly.
  During the first week of the regular session of the general assembly following a regular state election, the president of the senate, in the...
• Section 3505.35 - Canvass Of Abstracts By Secretary Of State.
  When the secretary of state has received from the board of elections of every county in the state Form No.2, as provided for in...
• Section 3505.36 - Canvass Of Abstracts Of Multi County Candidates And Issues.
  When the board of elections of the most populous county of a district comprised of more than one county but less than all of...
• Section 3505.37 - Canvass Of Abstracts By County Where Major Portion Of A Subdivision Involved Is Located.
  When the board of elections of a county in which the major portion of the population of a subdivision located in more than one...
• Section 3505.38 - Certificates Of Election.
  Election officials who are required to declare the results of a special or general election in which persons were elected to offices shall, unless...
• Section 3505.39 - Meeting Of State's Presidential Electors.
  The secretary of state shall immediately upon the completion of the canvass of election returns mail to each presidential elector so elected a certificate...
• Section 3505.40 - Electoral Vote To Be Cast For Party Nominees.
  A presidential elector elected at a general election or appointed pursuant to section 3505.39 of the Revised Code shall, when discharging the duties enjoined...

Last modified: October 10, 2016