Effective: August 22, 1995 Latest Legislation: House Bill 99 – 121st General Assembly Except in elections for which the board of elections has received no valid declarations of intent to be a write-in candidate under section 3513.041 of the Revised Code, immediately below the title of each office for which nominations are to be made […]
Effective: October 8, 1982 Latest Legislation: House Bill 419 – 114th General Assembly The names of the candidates in each group of two or more candidates seeking the same nomination or election at a primary election, except delegates and alternates to the national convention of a political party, shall be rotated and printed as provided […]
Effective: July 2, 2010 Latest Legislation: House Bill 48 – 128th General Assembly (A) Candidates for delegate and alternate to the national convention of a political party shall be represented on the ballot, or their names shall appear on the ballot, in accordance with this section, but only in a manner that enables an elector […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When two or more judges of the court of common pleas are to be elected in a county at any one election, the name of each candidate shall be placed upon the primary ballot under the designation of the term for which […]
Effective: September 28, 1959 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 72 – 103rd General Assembly If a person who has filed a declaration of candidacy, whose candidacy is to be submitted at a primary election to the electors of the entire state, dies prior to the tenth day before the day of such primary election, the secretary […]
Effective: February 25, 2014 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 109 – 130th General Assembly Party primaries shall be held at the same place and time, but there shall be separate pollbooks and tally sheets provided at each polling place for each party participating in the election. If a special election on a question or issue is […]
Effective: February 25, 2014 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 109 – 130th General Assembly (A) It is the duty of any precinct election official, whenever any such official doubts that a person attempting to vote at a primary election is legally entitled to vote at that election, to challenge the right of that person to vote. […]
Effective: August 22, 1995 Latest Legislation: House Bill 99 – 121st General Assembly (A) No person shall be a candidate for nomination or election at a party primary if the person voted as a member of a different political party at any primary election within the current year and the immediately preceding two calendar years. […]
Effective: August 22, 1995 Latest Legislation: House Bill 99 – 121st General Assembly Any candidate nominated at a party primary election who votes in that primary election as a member of a political party different from the party that nominated the candidate shall forfeit the nomination, and the vacancy so created shall be filled in […]
Effective: May 2, 2006 Latest Legislation: House Bill 3 – 126th General Assembly Before any challenged person shall be allowed to vote at a primary election, the person shall make a statement, under penalty of election falsification, before one of the precinct officials, blanks for which shall be furnished by the board of elections, giving […]
Effective: February 25, 2014 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 109 – 130th General Assembly At the close of the polls in a primary election, the precinct election officials shall proceed without delay to canvass the vote, sign and seal it, and make returns thereof to the board of elections forthwith on the forms to be provided […]
Effective: May 2, 2006 Latest Legislation: House Bill 3 – 126th General Assembly (A) Not earlier than the eleventh day or later than the fifteenth day after a primary election, the board of elections shall begin to canvass the election returns from the precincts in which electors were entitled to vote at that election and […]
Effective: December 23, 2002 Latest Legislation: House Bill 445 – 124th General Assembly (A) If an elector voting at a primary election writes in a blank space provided for that purpose on the ballot of one political party under the title of an office for which a nomination is to be made the name of […]
Effective: April 5, 1976 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1165 – 111th General Assembly When members of party committees are elected at a primary election, the returns shall be made and canvassed in the same manner as for the election of state, district, and county offices. The election authorities shall issue and deliver to each person […]
Effective: July 2, 2010 Latest Legislation: House Bill 48 – 128th General Assembly Nominations of candidates for election as officers of a municipal corporation having a population of less than two thousand as ascertained by the next preceding federal census shall be made only by nominating petition and their election shall occur only in nonpartisan […]
Effective: July 2, 2010 Latest Legislation: House Bill 48 – 128th General Assembly Nominations of candidates for election as officers of a township shall be made only by nominating petitions, unless a majority of the electors of such township have petitioned for a primary election. The nominating petitions of nonpartisan candidates for township trustee and […]
Effective: July 2, 2010 Latest Legislation: House Bill 48 – 128th General Assembly (A) The name of each candidate for member of a city, local, or exempted village board of education shall appear on the nonpartisan ballot. Nominating petitions of candidates for member of a board of education of a local or exempted village school […]
Effective: July 2, 2010 Latest Legislation: House Bill 48 – 128th General Assembly This section is subject to section 3513.256 of the Revised Code. The name of each candidate for election as a member of a governing board of an educational service center shall appear on the nonpartisan ballot. Each nominating petition shall be signed […]
Effective: July 2, 2010 Latest Legislation: House Bill 48 – 128th General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, for the purpose of nominating candidates for a position as a member of the board of education of a city, local, or exempted village school district or a position as a […]
Effective: September 30, 2021 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 80 – 134th General Assembly Each person desiring to become an independent candidate for an office for which candidates may be nominated at a primary election, except persons desiring to become independent joint candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor and for the offices of […]
