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...(A) The northeast Ohio medical university may enter into a partnership with Cleveland state university to establish the northeast Ohio medical university academic campus at Cleveland state university, to enable fifty per cent or more of the medical curriculum taught to students enrolled under this partnership to be based in Cleveland at Cleveland state university, local hospitals, and community- and neighborhood-base...

...ned and counted by automatic tabulating equipment. (B) "Ballot" means the official election presentation of offices and candidates, including write-in candidates, and of questions and issues, and the means by which votes are recorded. (C) "Automatic tabulating equipment" means a machine or electronic device, or interconnected or interrelated machines or electronic devices, that will automatically examine and coun...

...king devices, and automatic tabulating equipment may be adopted for use in elections in any county in the following manner: (A) By the board of elections; (B) By the board of county commissioners of such county on the recommendation of the board of elections; (C) By the affirmative vote of a majority of the electors of such county voting upon the question of the adoption of such equipment in such county. If...

...(A) A board of elections may adopt the use of any electronic pollbook that has been certified for use in this state in accordance with section 3506.05 of the Revised Code, instead of using poll lists or signature pollbooks. A board of elections that opts to use electronic pollbooks shall notify the secretary of state of that decision. (B) The secretary of state shall provide each board of elections that adopt...

...rking devices, and automatic tabulating equipment either by the action of the board of elections or by the board of county commissioners, on the recommendation of the board of elections or by the affirmative vote of a majority of the electors voting on the question of the adoption of such equipment, such board of county commissioners shall acquire the equipment by any one or by any combination of the following method...

...election following the adoption of such equipment, as many shall be supplied for that election and the succeeding elections as it is practicable to procure either by purchase or lease, or by a combination of both, and such equipment may be used in election precincts within the county as the board of elections directs until such time as it is practicable to provide the total number of voting machines or marking device...

... used as part of the phrase "tabulating equipment" or "automatic tabulating equipment," "equipment" means a voting machine, marking device, automatic tabulating equipment, software, an electronic pollbook, a voter registration system, or a ballots on demand voting system. (3) "Vendor" means the person that owns, manufactures, distributes, or has the legal right to control the use of equipment, or the person's agent...

...No marking device 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, unless it fulfills the following requirements: (A) It shall permit and require voting in absolute secrecy, and shall be so constructed that no person can see or know for whom any other elector has voted or is voting, except an elector who is as...

...No automatic tabulating equipment 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, unless it has been or is capable of being manufactured for use and distribution beyond a prototype and can be set by election officials, to examine ballots and to count votes accurately for each candidate, question, and issue, exc...

...When a marking device designed for use with printed ballot cards has been approved by the secretary of state pursuant to section 3506.05 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state shall for each election prescribe specifications for the printing of such ballot cards that will present to voters the same information with respect to candidates, offices, questions, and issues obtainable from paper ballots for the same e...

...Where a marking device designed for use with electronic data processing cards has been approved by the secretary of state pursuant to section 3506.05 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state shall for each election prescribe for use with such marking device ballot labels that will present to voters the same information with respect to candidates, offices, questions, and issues obtainable from paper ballots for the...

...elated to the use or malfunction of the equipment, accompanied by satisfactory surety, all as determined by the secretary of state, with the board of county commissioners, guaranteeing and securing that those machines have been and continue to be certified by the secretary of state in accordance with section 3506.05 of the Revised Code, comply fully with the requirements of this section, and will correctly, accuratel...

...The names of all candidates for an office shall be arranged in a group under the title of the office and printed on labels so that they may be rotated on the voting machine as provided in section 3505.03 of the Revised Code. Under the name of each candidate nominated at a primary election, nominated by petition under section 3517.012 of the Revised Code, or certified by a party committee to fill a vacancy under...

...e marking devices, automatic tabulating equipment, voting machines, or any combination of these are in use or are to be used, the board of elections: (A) May combine, rearrange, and enlarge precincts; but the board shall arrange for a sufficient number of these devices to accommodate the number of electors in each precinct as determined by the number of votes cast in that precinct at the most recent election for t...

...e marking devices, automatic tabulating equipment, voting machines, or any combination of these are used, observers may be appointed as prescribed in section 3505.21 of the Revised Code. The duties and privileges of observers in such precincts during the hours the polls are open shall be as provided in section 3505.21 of the Revised Code. Observers shall be allowed to remain in the polling place after the polls clos...

...evice, or piece of automatic tabulating equipment with every ballot style to be used in the election to ascertain that the ballots are accurate and that the machines, devices, and equipment will accurately record, mark, or count the votes cast for all offices and on all questions and issues, as applicable. The test shall be conducted by processing a pre-audited group of ballots so marked as to record a predetermined ...

...e of the voting machine and tabulating equipment, the assignment of duties of booth officials, the procedure for casting a vote on the machine, and how the vote shall be tallied and reported to the board, and with other rules, instructions, directives, and advisories the secretary of state finds necessary to ensure the adequate care and custody of voting equipment, and the accurate registering, counting, and c...

...(A) The secretary of state shall adopt standards for the security and integrity of voter registration systems. Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, no voter registration system shall be approved by the board of voting systems examiners, certified by the secretary of state, or acquired by the secretary of state or a board of elections, unless it meets those standards. (B) Notwithstanding any...

...(A) For any recount of an election in which ballots are cast using a direct recording electronic voting machine with a voter verified paper audit trail, the voter verified paper audit trail shall serve as the official ballot to be recounted. (B) Voter verified paper audit trails shall be preserved in the same manner and for the same time period as paper ballots are preserved under section 3505.31 of the Revised Code...

...On and after the first federal election that occurs after January 1, 2006, unless required sooner by the Help America Vote Act of 2002, each polling location shall have available for use at all elections at least one direct recording electronic voting machine or marking device that is accessible for individuals with disabilities, including nonvisual accessibility for persons who are blind and visually impaired, in a ...

...(A)(1) The secretary of state shall adopt standards for the security and integrity of ballots on demand voting systems. Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, no ballots on demand voting system shall be approved by the board of voting systems examiners, certified by the secretary of state, or acquired by the secretary of state or a board of elections, unless it meets those standards. (2) The ...

...tronically read by automatic tabulating equipment, any of the following marks, if a majority of those marks are made in a consistent manner throughout an optical scan ballot, shall be counted as a valid vote: (a) A candidate, question, or issue choice that has been circled by the voter; (b) An oval beside the candidate, question, or issue choice that has been circled by the voter; (c) An oval besid...

...(A) Beginning in the year 2013 and thereafter, a county that selects direct recording electronic voting machines as the primary voting system to be used in the county and not only for accessibility for individuals with disabilities as required under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and section 3506.19 of the Revised Code shall acquire, if needed, sufficient direct recording electronic voting machines to meet t...

...A voting machine shall not be connected to the internet.

... system" means software and any related equipment used by a board of elections or the secretary of state to process, store, organize, maintain, or retrieve voter registration records. (B)(1) No voter registration system, voting machine, marking device, or automatic tabulating equipment shall be used for the purpose of conducting elections in this state if an elected official or the spouse of an elected official is ...