Ohio Revised Code Search

...(A) At the time of filing a declaration of candidacy for nomination for any office, or a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate, each candidate, except joint candidates for governor and lieutenant governor, shall pay a fee as follows: For statewide office $100 For court of appeals judge $ 50 For court of common pleas judge $ 50 For county court judge $ 50 For municipal court judge $ 50...

...In the year 1952 and in each second year thereafter, each major political party in the state may hold a state convention. If a major political party holds a state convention, it shall comply with the requirements of this section. A state convention of a major political party shall be composed of delegates who are its candidates for election to state offices, except judicial offices; its candidates for election to the...

...(A) Any major political party that does not hold a state convention under section 3513.11 of the Revised Code shall nominate candidates for election as presidential electors in accordance with this section. (B) In accordance with party rules, in 1992 and in each fourth year thereafter, the executive committee of the state central committee of a major political party described in division (A) of this section shall no...

...At a presidential primary election, which shall be held as provided in division (E)(2) of section 3501.01 of the Revised Code, delegates and alternates to the national conventions of the different major political parties shall be chosen by direct vote of the electors as provided in this chapter. Candidates for delegate and alternate shall be qualified and the election shall be conducted in the manner prescribed in th...

...at least five thousand dollars for the primary election in each of twenty states from individuals, with a maximum of two hundred fifty dollars per contributor counting toward the threshold, may file with the secretary of state a declaration of candidacy not later than four p.m. of the ninetieth day before the presidential primary election. Such declaration of candidacy shall be accompanied by a reasonable acco...

...undred fifth day before the day of the primary election which occurs in any year at which national convention or conference delegates and alternates are elected. Petitions of candidacy for such delegates shall be filed in the form and manner provided by the secretary of state. Any political party electing delegates to a national convention or conference under this section in an odd-numbered year in which a s...

...Separate primary election ballots shall be provided by the board of elections for each political party having candidates for nomination or election in a primary election. Section 3505.08 of the Revised Code governing the kind of paper, the kind of ink, and the size and style of type to be used in the printing of ballots for general elections shall apply in the printing of ballots for primary elections. Primary elect...

...l surnames run for the same office in a primary election on the same ballot, the names of the candidates shall be differentiated on the ballot by varying combinations of first and middle names and initials. Within twenty-four hours after the final date for filing declarations of candidacy or petitions for candidacy, the director of the board of elections for local, municipal, county, general, or special electio...

...eunder, there shall be provided on each primary election ballot as many blank spaces as, but not more than, the number of nominations to be made for such office, in which the voter may write the names of persons for whose nomination he desires to vote, provided that inasmuch as candidates for the office of delegate and alternate to the national and state conventions, member of the state central committee, and member ...

...ng the same nomination or election at a primary election, except delegates and alternates to the national convention of a political party, shall be rotated and printed as provided in section 3505.03 of the Revised Code, except that no indication of membership in or affiliation with a political party shall be printed after or under the candidate's name. When the names of the first choices for president of candidates f...

... prior to the date of the presidential primary election, shall file with the secretary of state a statement that stipulates, in accordance with rules adopted by each state central committee at a meeting open to all members of the committee's party, whether or not the names of candidates for district delegate and district alternate to the national convention of that chairperson's party are to be printed on the ...

...each candidate shall be placed upon the primary ballot under the designation of the term for which he is a candidate. Such designation shall correspond to that required by section 3513.08 of the Revised Code. The candidates for each term so designated shall be candidates for that term only, unless two or more new judgeships have been created, in which case from all candidates for a newly-created judgeship those rece...

...whose candidacy is to be submitted at a primary election to the electors of the entire state, dies prior to the tenth day before the day of such primary election, the secretary of state, upon proof of the death of such candidate, shall make certification of such death to the boards of elections of the state, and the name of such deceased candidate shall not appear on the ballots. If a person who has filed a declarat...

...Party primaries shall be held at the same place and time, but there shall be separate pollbooks and tally sheets provided at each polling place for each party participating in the election. If a special election on a question or issue is held on the day of a primary election, there shall be provided in the pollbooks pages on which shall be recorded the names of all electors voting on said question or issue a...

... that a person attempting to vote at a primary election is legally entitled to vote at that election, to challenge the right of that person to vote. The right of a person to vote at a primary election may be challenged upon the following grounds: (1) That the person whose right to vote is challenged is not a legally qualified elector; (2) That the person has received or has been promised some valuable reward...

...e for nomination or election at a party primary if the person voted as a member of a different political party at any primary election within the current year and the immediately preceding two calendar years. (B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, either of the following persons may be candidates for nomination of any political party at a party primary: (1) A person who does not hold an elective office; ...

...Any candidate nominated at a party primary election who votes in that primary election as a member of a political party different from the party that nominated the candidate shall forfeit the nomination, and the vacancy so created shall be filled in accordance with section 3513.31 of the Revised Code.

...ed person shall be allowed to vote at a primary election, the person shall make a statement, under penalty of election falsification, before one of the precinct officials, blanks for which shall be furnished by the board of elections, giving name, age, residence, length of residence in the precinct, county, and state; stating that the person desires to be affiliated with and supports the principles of the political p...

...At the close of the polls in a primary election, the precinct election officials shall proceed without delay to canvass the vote, sign and seal it, and make returns thereof to the board of elections forthwith on the forms to be provided by the board. The provisions of Title XXXV of the Revised Code relating to the accounting for and return of all ballots at general elections apply to primary ballots. If there...

...or later than the fifteenth day after a primary election, the board of elections shall begin to canvass the election returns from the precincts in which electors were entitled to vote at that election and shall continue the canvass daily until it is completed. The board shall complete the canvass not later than the twenty-first day after the day of the election. Eighty-one days after the day of the election, the c...

...(A) If an elector voting at a primary election writes in a blank space provided for that purpose on the ballot of one political party under the title of an office for which a nomination is to be made the name of a person other than the persons whose names are printed on the ballot as candidates for the nomination, and if that elector records the vote in the manner provided on the ballot next to the name written, ...

...rs of party committees are elected at a primary election, the returns shall be made and canvassed in the same manner as for the election of state, district, and county offices. The election authorities shall issue and deliver to each person who is elected a certificate of his election. A list of such party committeemen who are chosen shall be filed and kept in the office of the secretary of state and the board of el...

...ipal corporation have petitioned for a primary election. Nominations of candidates for election as officers of a municipal corporation having a population of two thousand or more shall be made either by primary election in conjunction with a partisan general election or by nominating petition in conjunction with a nonpartisan general election, as determined under section 3513.01 of the Revised Code. The nomin...

...of such township have petitioned for a primary election. The nominating petitions of nonpartisan candidates for township trustee and township fiscal officer shall be signed by not less than twenty-five qualified electors of the township. Such petition shall be filed with the board of elections not later than four p.m. of the ninetieth day before the day of the general election, provided that no such nominating ...

...andidate through party nomination at a primary election or by the filling of a vacancy under section 3513.30 or 3513.31 of the Revised Code for any other position as a member of a city, local, or exempted village board of education or position as a member of a governing board of an educational service center, or for a municipal or township office. When a petition of a candidate has been accepted for filing by a...