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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]