(A) As used in this rule, "eligible
campaign committee" means either of the following:
(1) The campaign
committee of a candidate for statewide office that makes expenditures of less
than twenty-five thousand dollars during a reporting period under division (A)
of section 3517.10 of the Revised Code;
(2) The campaign
committee of a candidate for the office of member of the general assembly or
for the office of judge of a court of appeals that would otherwise be required
to file campaign finance statements by electronic means of transmission under
division (E) of section 3517.106 of the Revised Code.
(B)
(1) An eligible campaign
committee may file a campaign finance statement for a reporting period under
division (A) of section 3517.10 of the Revised Code by paper rather than by
electronic means of transmission if the candidate of the eligible campaign
committee files with the secretary of state a notice indicating that the
candidate's campaign committee intends to file by paper and stating that
filing the statement by electronic means of transmission would constitute a
hardship for the candidate or for the eligible campaign committee.
(2) The campaign finance
statement is accompanied by a fee not to exceed the actual data entry and data
verification costs incurred by the secretary of state to convert the
information filed on paper to electronic format. The fee shall be determined by
the secretary of state, which results in a fee that does not exceed the
secretary's actual costs.
(C) An eligible campaign committee that
files a campaign finance statement on paper pursuant to division (J) of section
3517.106 of the Revised Code shall review the contribution and other
information made available online by the secretary of state with respect to
that paper filing and shall notify the secretary of state of any errors with
respect to that filing that appear in the data made available on the secretary
of state's web site.
(D) Campaign finance statements filed on
paper pursuant to division (J) of section 3517.106 of the Revised Code shall be
filed by the filing deadlines required under division (A) of section 3517.10 of
the Revised Code.
(E) Any campaign committee that submits
paper campaign finance statements, pursuant to division (J) of section 3517.106
of the Revised Code, shall comply with the following provisions, as
applicable.
(1) The candidate of an
eligible campaign committee that intends to file a paper statement pursuant to
division (J) of section 3517.106 of the Revised Code shall file a notice of
hardship for each campaign finance statement that the committee intends to file
by paper. A notice of hardship must be filed prior to the filing of the
campaign finance statement on paper in order for a campaign committee to file
on paper pursuant to division (J) of section 3517.106 of the Revised
Code.
(2) A campaign finance
statement filed on paper pursuant to division (J) of section 3517.106 of the
Revised Code is not timely filed if, by the filing deadline, the statement is
not filed at the office of the secretary of state.
(3) Electronic filing
notices of hardship shall be signed under penalty of election
falsification.
