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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
Section 3599.12 | Illegal Voting.
Effective: January 27, 2006 Latest Legislation: House Bill 234 – 126th General Assembly (A) No person shall do any of the following: (1) Vote or attempt to vote in any primary, special, or general election in a precinct in which that person is not a legally qualified elector; (2) Vote or attempt to vote more […]
Section 3599.13 | Signing of Petitions.
Effective: May 2, 2006 Latest Legislation: House Bill 3 – 126th General Assembly (A) No person shall do any of the following: (1) Sign an initiative, supplementary, referendum, recall, or nominating petition knowing that the person is not at the time qualified to sign it; (2) Knowingly sign such a petition more than once; (3) […]
Section 3599.14 | Prohibited Acts Concerning Declarations or Petitions.
Effective: May 2, 2006 Latest Legislation: House Bill 3 – 126th General Assembly (A) No person shall knowingly, directly or indirectly, do any of the following in connection with any declaration of candidacy and petition, declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate, nominating petition, or other petition presented to or filed with the secretary […]
Section 3599.15 | Purchase, Theft, Sale, Destruction, or Mutilation of Petitions.
Effective: July 1, 1996 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 2 – 121st General Assembly No person shall purchase, steal, attempt to steal, sell, attempt to sell, or willfully destroy or mutilate any initiative, supplementary, referendum, recall, or nominating petition, or any part of a petition, that is being or has been lawfully circulated; provided that the […]
Section 3599.16 | Misconduct of Member, Director, or Employee of Board of Elections – Dismissal.
Effective: July 1, 1983 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 199 – 114th General Assembly No member, director, or employee of a board of elections shall: (A) Willfully or negligently violate or neglect to perform any duty imposed upon him by law, or willfully perform or neglect to perform it in such a way as to hinder […]