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...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Jail" means a county jail, or a multicounty, municipal-county, or multicounty-municipal correctional center. (2) "Medical provider" means a physician, hospital, laboratory, pharmacist, pharmacy, or other health care provider that is not employed by or under contract to a county, municipal corporation, township, the department of youth services, or the department of rehabilitation a...

...(A) The sheriff may establish a commissary for the jail. The commissary may be established either in-house or by another arrangement. If a commissary is established, all persons incarcerated in the jail shall receive commissary privileges. A person's purchases from the commissary shall be deducted from the person's account record in the jail's business office. The commissary shall provide for the distribution to indi...

...The prosecuting attorney of the county where a violation of division (G)(2) or (3) or (I)(1) or (2) of section 343.01 of the Revised Code has occurred, is occurring, or may occur, upon the request of the board of county commissioners of the county district or the board of directors of the joint solid waste management district having jurisdiction, shall prosecute to termination or bring a civil action for appropriate ...

...Whoever violates division (G)(2) or (3) or (I)(1) or (2) of section 343.01 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars. Each day of each violation is a separate offense. Notwithstanding any other section of the Revised Code relating to the distribution or crediting of fines for violations of the Revised Code, all fines imposed under this section shall be deposited into the special fund, cre...

...The form of the ballot cast at a general election, as provided by sections 345.01 to 345.03 of the Revised Code, shall be: "An additional tax for the benefit of (name of subdivision) for the purpose of (state purpose stated in the resolution), that the county auditor estimates will collect $_____ annually, at a rate not exceeding _____ mills for each $1 of taxable value, which amounts to $_____ for each $100,000 of t...

...Moneys in the funds of the new community authority, except as otherwise provided in any resolution authorizing the issuance of its community authority bonds or in any trust agreement or indenture of mortgage securing the same, or related agreement, in excess of current needs, may be invested in notes, bonds, or other obligations of the United States, or of any agency or instrumentality thereof, or in obligations of t...

...General elections in the state and its political subdivisions shall be held as follows: (A) For the election of electors of president and vice-president of the United States, in the year of 1932 and every four years thereafter; (B) For the election of a member of the senate of the United States, in the years 1932 and 1934, and every six years after each of such years; except as otherwise provided for filling vac...

...(A) Notwithstanding any other section of the Revised Code, the secretary of state may authorize, in one or more precincts in one or more counties, a program allowing individuals under the age of eighteen to enter the polling place and vote in a simulated election held at the same time as a general election. Any individual working in or supervising at a simulated election may enter the polling place and remain w...

...(A) The secretary of state shall not serve as campaign treasurer or in any other official capacity for any campaign committee for any state or local office other than an office to which the secretary of state is seeking election. (B) The secretary of state shall not serve as campaign treasurer or in any other official capacity for any principal campaign committee or other authorized committee for any federal office ...

...(A) There is in the office of the secretary of state the election integrity unit. (B) Under the direction of the secretary of state, the election integrity unit shall do all of the following: (1) Investigate alleged violations of Title XXXV of the Revised Code on the unit's own initiative, upon receiving a complaint under this section, or upon the filing of a complaint with the secretary of state under section 35...

...(A) There shall be in each county of the state a board of elections consisting of four qualified electors of the county, who shall be appointed by the secretary of state, as the secretary's representatives. (B)(1) On the first day of March in the years 2014 and 2016, the secretary of state shall appoint two of such board members for a term of three years. One of those board members shall be from the political...

...When the board of elections considers it necessary to change, divide, or combine any precinct or to relocate a polling place, it shall notify, prior to the next election, each of the registrants in the precinct of the change by mail. On and after August 1, 2000, when the board changes the boundaries of any precinct, it shall notify the secretary of state of the change not later than forty-five days after making the c...

...(A) To encourage voting, a board of elections may appoint persons who are fluent in a non-English language to serve as interpreters to assist voters in certain election precincts. If the board determines that the number of non-English-speaking electors in a precinct indicates a need for an interpreter and provision of an interpreter is feasible and practical in terms of the number of such electors, the board may appo...

...(A) The board of elections shall provide for each polling place the necessary ballot box, official ballots, cards of instructions, registration forms, pollbooks or poll lists, tally sheets, forms on which to make summary statements, writing implements, paper, and all other supplies necessary for casting and counting the ballots and recording the results of the voting at the polling place. The pollbooks or poll ...

...All registrars and precinct election officials, in determining the residence of a person offering to register or vote, shall be governed by the following rules: (A) That place shall be considered the residence of a person in which the person's habitation is fixed and to which, whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning. (B) A person shall not be considered to have lost the person's re...

...All registrations shall be carefully checked, and in case any person is found to have registered more than once, the additional registration forms shall be canceled by the board of elections. Six weeks prior to the day of a special, primary, or general election, the board shall publish notices in one or more newspapers of general circulation advertising the places, dates, times, methods of registration, and voter q...

...(A) Fourteen days before an election, the board of elections shall cause to be prepared from the statewide voter registration database established under section 3503.15 of the Revised Code a complete and official registration list for each precinct, containing the names, addresses, and political party whose ballot the elector voted in the most recent primary election within the current year and the immediately preced...

...(A) Application for the correction of any precinct registration list or a challenge of the right to vote of any registered elector may be made by any qualified elector at the office of the board of elections not later than the thirtieth day before the day of the election. The applications or challenges, with the reasons for the application or challenge, shall be filed with the board in person or by mail on a form pre...

...(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in section 3519.08 of the Revised Code, on the seventieth day before the day of the next general election, the secretary of state shall certify to the board of elections of each county the forms of the official ballots to be used at that general election, together with the names of the candidates to be printed on those ballots whose candidacy is to be submitted to the elector...

...(A) Ballots shall be provided by the board of elections for all general and special elections. The ballots shall be printed with black ink on No. 2 white book paper fifty pounds in weight per ream assuming such ream to consist of five hundred sheets of such paper twenty-five by thirty-eight inches in size. Each ballot shall have attached at the top two stubs, each of the width of the ballot and not less than on...

...(A)(1) When an elector appears in a polling place to vote, the elector shall announce to the precinct election officials the elector's full name and current address and provide photo identification. (2) If an elector does not have or is unable to provide photo identification to the precinct election officials, the elector may cast a provisional ballot under section 3505.181 of the Revised Code. (3) If the electo...

...(A) An elector who does not have photo identification because the elector has a religious objection to being photographed may complete an affidavit of religious objection in lieu of providing photo identification for the purpose of casting a provisional ballot. (B) The secretary of state shall prescribe the form of the affidavit of religious objection, which shall be substantially as follows: "Affidavit of Religi...

...(A) As used in this section : (1) " During the casting of the ballots" includes any of the following: (a) Any time during which a board of elections permits an elector to vote an absent voter's ballot in person at the office of the board; (b) Any time ballots may be cast in a precinct polling place on the day of an election; (c) Any time during which a board of elections processes absent voter's ballots befor...

...As used in this chapter and Chapters 3501., 3503., 3505., 3509., 3511., 3513., 3515., 3517., 3519., 3521., 3523., and 3599. of the Revised Code: (A) "Marking device" means an apparatus operated by a voter to record the voter's choices through the marking of ballots enabling them to be examined and counted by automatic tabulating equipment. (B) "Ballot" means the official election presentation of offices and candi...

...No voting machine shall be approved by the board of voting systems examiners or certified by the secretary of state, or be purchased, rented, or otherwise acquired, or used, except when specifically allowed for experimental use, as provided in section 3506.04 of the Revised Code, unless it fulfills the following requirements: (A) It shall permit and require voting in absolute secrecy, and shall be so constructed th...