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...on, or other petition presented to or filed with the secretary of state, a board of elections, or any other public office for the purpose of becoming a candidate for any elective office, including the office of a political party, for the purpose of submitting a question or issue to the electors at an election, or for the purpose of forming a political party: (1) Misrepresent the contents, purpose, or effect of the p...

...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 words "purchase" and "sell" do not apply to persons paying or receiving pay for soliciting signatures to or circulating a petition or petition paper. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.

...r, 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 the objects of the law, or willfully disobey any law incumbent upon him so to do; (B) Willfully or knowingly report as genuine a false or fraudulent signature on a petition or registration form, o...

...(A) The director of elections, deputy director of elections, or an employee of the board of elections designated by the director or deputy director shall be available during normal office hours to provide any person with access to the public records filed in the office of the board of elections. (B) No director of elections, deputy director of elections, or employee of the board of elections designated by the direct...

...section 3501.31 of the Revised Code, unless excused by such board; (4) Refuse or sanction the refusal of another registrar or precinct election official to administer an oath required by law; (5) Fail to send notice to the board of the appointment of a precinct election official to fill a vacancy; (6) Act as registrar or precinct election official without having been appointed and having received a certificate...

...(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 for registration; (2) Enter or consent to the entry of a fictitious name on a voter registration list; (3) Alter the name on or remove or destroy ...

...(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 misplace, carry away, negligently lose or permit to be taken from the precinct election official, fail to deliver, or destroy any such packages,...

...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 Code, with the apparent intention of letting it be known how the elector is about to vote; or make a false statement as to the elector's ability to mark the ballot; or knowingly mark...

...o the office of a board of elections, unless either of the following apply: (a) The person is a relative who is authorized to do so under division (C)(1) of section 3509.05 of the Revised Code; (b) The person is, and is acting as, an employee or contractor of the United States postal service or a private carrier. (10) Except as authorized under Chapters 3509. and 3511. of the Revised Code, possess the absent vo...

...icial ballot furnished by the board of elections; (2) Print or permit to be printed more ballots than are delivered to the board; (3) Appropriate, give, deliver, or knowingly permit to be taken away any of such ballots by a person other than the person authorized by law to do so; (4) Print such ballots on paper other than that provided in the contract with the board; (5) Package or deliver to the board fewer ball...

...marking devices; (2) Unlawfully or carelessly use or negligently lose or permit to be taken from the printer or other entrusted person and fail to deliver or destroy any such marking devices. (C) Whoever violates division (A)(1) or (2) or (B) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. Whoever violates division (A)(3) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.

...s, ballot boxes, or pollbooks; (2) Recklessly destroy any property used in the conduct of elections; (3) Attempt to intimidate an election officer, or prevent an election official from performing the official's duties; (4) Knowingly tear down, remove, or destroy any of the registration lists or sample ballots furnished by the board of elections at the polling place; (5) Loiter in or about a registration or pollin...

...ounsel 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 precinct for the purpose of voting in it, knowing that such person is not qualified to vote in it; (3) Counsel, advise, or attempt to induce an election officer to permit a person to vote, knowing such person is not a qualified elector. (B) Whoever violat...

...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 of an elector, by which such elector is prevented from voting for such candidates or on an issue as the elector intends to do; or mark a ballot of an elector e...

...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 use of, destroy, or otherwise injure in any manner any voting machine. No unauthorized person shall have in the person's possession any marking device, automatic tabulating equipment, or any of the parts, appurtenances, or accessories thereof. No p...

... or record authorized or required by Title XXXV of the Revised Code. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.

...ist, pollbook, tally sheet, or list of election returns of an election, knowing it to be such, with intent to hinder, defeat, or prevent a fair expression of the popular will at such election. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.

... of the voting location manager at an election, against persons unlawfully congregating or loitering within one hundred feet of a polling place, hindering or delaying an elector from reaching or leaving the polling place, soliciting or attempting, within one hundred feet of the polling place, to influence an elector in casting the elector's vote, or interfering with the registration of voters or casting and cou...

...cial 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.

...as evidence in a recount or contest of election, shall willfully and with fraudulent intent make any mark or alteration on any ballot; or inscribe, write, or cause to be inscribed or written in or upon a registration form or list, pollbook, tally sheet, or list, lawfully made or kept at an election, or in or upon a book or paper purporting to be such, or upon an election return, or upon a book or paper containing suc...

...recount or as evidence in a contest of election, shall unlawfully destroy or attempt to destroy the ballots, or permit such ballots or a ballot box or pollbook used at an election to be destroyed; or destroy, falsify, mark, or write in a name on any such ballot that has been voted. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.

...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 stead. No person shall knowingly or fraudulently act or vote or attempt to impersonate, act, or vote in place of that committeeperson, delegate, or alternate. Whoever violates th...

...r 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, or election official, or in a matter in relation to which an oath or statement under penalty of election falsification is authorized by law, including a statement required for verifying or filing any declaration of candidacy, declara...

...iolates division (A) of this section, unless the violator personally appears before the grand jury, court, board, or officer and asserts the protection of the violator's constitutional rights, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...(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 person's preference for any candidate or for any question submitted at an election; (2) Influence or attempt to influence any voter to cast the vote...