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... such equipment and paying the purchase price therefor in cash; or out of the proceeds of the issuance and sale of bonds, provided the question of issuing bonds for such purpose was submitted to the vote of the electors of the county pursuant to section 133.18 of the Revised Code and provided the issuance of such bonds was approved; (B) By purchasing in whole or in part such equipment and paying the purchase price i...

...e board of elections directs until such time as it is practicable to provide the total number of voting machines or marking devices necessary to supply all precincts within the county, provided that the total number of voting machines or marking devices necessary to supply all precincts shall be procured by purchase or lease, or by a combination of both as soon as practicable after their adoption. (B) The board of ...

...val and certification. (G) If, at any time after the certification of equipment, the board of voting systems examiners or the secretary of state is notified by a board of elections of any significant problem with the equipment or determines that the equipment fails to meet the requirements necessary for approval or continued compliance with all applicable requirements, or if the board of voting systems examiners de...

...ed that no person can see or know for whom any other elector has voted or is voting, except an elector who is assisting a voter as prescribed by section 3505.24 of the Revised Code. (B) It shall permit each elector to vote at any election for all persons and offices for whom and for which the elector is lawfully entitled to vote, whether or not the name of any such person appears on a ballot as a candidate; to vote...

...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...

...ces, questions, and issues obtainable from paper ballots for the same election prepared pursuant to Chapter 3505. of the Revised Code. Each ballot card shall have attached two stubs, each of the width of the ballot and each at least one-half inch in length, except that, if the board of elections has an alternate method to account for the ballots that the secretary of state has authorized, each ballot card may have o...

...ces, questions, and issues obtainable from paper ballots for the same election prepared pursuant to Chapter 3505. of the Revised Code. Each ballot card shall have attached two stubs, each of the width of the ballot and each at least one-half inch in length, except that, if the board of elections has an alternate method to account for the ballots that the secretary of state has authorized, each ballot card may have o...

...aring upon the ballot labels, up to the time the elector starts to register the elector's vote. (F) It shall permit each elector, at all presidential elections, by one device to vote for candidates of one party for president, vice-president, and presidential electors. (G) It shall be capable of adjustment by election officers so as to permit each elector, at a primary election, to vote only for the candidates of ...

...ndidate shall be printed in less prominent typeface than that in which the candidate's name is printed.

...ing 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 the off...

...ing 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 close and ...

...e board shall give public notice of the time and place of all testing to be conducted under this section by proclamation or posting as in the case of notice of elections. All testing under this section shall be conducted by bipartisan teams of election officials. (D) No voting machine, marking device, or piece of automatic tabulating equipment shall be used in an election in this state without undergoing successful...

...ries provided under this section shall comply, insofar as practicable, with this chapter. The provisions of Title XXXV of the Revised Code, not inconsistent with the provisions relating to voting machines, apply in any county using a voting machine.

...on system, which shall meet the requirements of this chapter.

...y the secretary of state or a court of competent jurisdiction. (D) If a voter verified paper audit trail is made available to the public, any information on that voter verified paper audit trail that identifies the particular direct recording electronic voting machine that produced it shall be redacted.

...rticipation, including privacy and independence, as for other voters.

...ng system, which shall meet the requirements of this chapter.

...scanned and electronically 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; ...

...determined. (2) The number resulting from the determination under division (B)(1) of this section shall be divided by one hundred seventy-five. (3) Any fraction resulting from the calculation under division (B)(2) of this section shall be rounded up to the next whole number. (C) A county that selects direct recording electronic voting machines as the primary voting system to be used in the county and not onl...

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

...ates, other than a member of a central committee of a political party. (2) "Voter registration 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 co...

...ter's ballots, within the limitation of time allotted. Those ballots shall be designated as "Absent Voter's Ballots." Except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section, those ballots shall be printed and ready for use as follows: (1) For overseas voters and absent uniformed services voters eligible to vote under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, Pub. L. No. 99-410, 100 Stat. 924, 4...

...sability, or infirmity, and who moves from one precinct to another within a county, changes the elector's name and moves from one precinct to another within a county, or moves from one county to another county within the state, on or prior to the day of a general, primary, or special election and has not filed a notice of change of residence or change of name may vote by absent voter's ballots in that election ...

...All identification envelopes containing absent voter's ballots for former resident voters who are entitled to vote for presidential and vice-presidential electors only, shall have printed or stamped thereon the words, "Presidential Ballot."

...'s address on the application. (3) A completed application for absent voter's ballots is not valid if any portion of it has been completed by any person other than the applicant in violation of division (F) of this section.