Effective: December 9, 1997 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 116 – 122nd General Assembly (A) No election official, person assisting in the registration of electors, or police officer shall knowingly do any of the following: (1) Refuse, neglect, or unnecessarily delay, hinder, or prevent the registration of a qualified elector, who in a lawful manner applies […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
Effective: July 1, 1996 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 2 – 121st General Assembly No unauthorized person shall have in the person’s possession any voting machine that may be owned or leased by any county or any of the parts or the keys thereof. No person shall tamper or attempt to tamper with, deface, impair the […]
Effective: July 1, 1996 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 2 – 121st General Assembly No person, with intent to defraud or deceive, shall write or sign the name of another person to any document, petition, registration card, or other book or record authorized or required by Title XXXV of the Revised Code. Whoever violates this section […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Effective: July 1, 1996 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 2 – 121st General Assembly No person, from the time ballots are cast or counted until the time has expired for using them as evidence in a recount or contest of election, shall willfully and with fraudulent intent make any mark or alteration on any ballot; or […]
Effective: July 1, 1996 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 2 – 121st General Assembly No person, from the time ballots are cast or voted until the time has expired for using them in a recount or as evidence in a contest of election, shall unlawfully destroy or attempt to destroy the ballots, or permit such ballots […]
Effective: December 9, 1997 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 116 – 122nd General Assembly No party committeeperson or party delegate or alternate chosen at an election, or a delegate or alternate appointed to a convention provided by law, shall give or issue a proxy or authority to another person to act or vote in that person’s […]
Effective: December 9, 1997 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 116 – 122nd General Assembly No person, either orally or in writing, on oath lawfully administered or in a statement made under penalty of election falsification, shall knowingly state a falsehood as to a material matter relating to an election in a proceeding before a court, tribunal, […]
Effective: September 29, 2007 Latest Legislation: House Bill 119 – 127th General Assembly (A) No person having been subpoenaed or ordered to appear before a grand jury, court, board, or officer in a proceeding or prosecution upon a complaint, information, affidavit, or indictment for an offense under an election law shall do either of the […]
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 […]
