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...ribute any money or other valuable consideration in the election or defeat of any candidate or the adoption or defeat of any question or issue for any purposes other than those enumerated in sections 3517.08 and 3517.12 of the Revised Code. Whoever violates this section is guilty of corrupt practices and shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than five hundred dollars.

...n any pay envelopes any statements intended or calculated to influence the political action of his or its employees; or post or exhibit in the establishment or anywhere in or about the establishment any posters, placards, or hand bills containing any threat, notice, or information that if any particular candidate is elected or defeated work in the establishment will cease in whole or in part, or other threats express...

...o vote on election day; or require or order an elector to accompany him to a voting place upon such day; or refuse to permit such elector to serve as an election official on any registration or election day; or indirectly use any force or restraint or threaten to inflict any injury, harm, or loss; or in any other manner practice intimidation in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting for ...

...No precinct election official, observer, or police officer admitted into the polling rooms at the election, at any time while the polls are open, shall have in the individual's possession, distribute, or give out any ballot or ticket to any person on any pretense during the receiving, counting, or certifying of the votes, or have any ballot or ticket in the individual's possession or control, except in the prop...

..., magazine, or other publication of any description, whether published regularly or irregularly, shall use the columns of any such publication for the printing of any threats, direct or implied, in the columns of any such publication for the purpose of controlling or intimidating candidates for public office. Such person shall not directly or indirectly solicit, receive, or accept any payment, promise, or compensatio...

....052 is guilty of seeking nomination or election to more than one prohibited office at the same election and shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars.

...e on any legislation, question, or proposition that may come before the general assembly; provided that this shall not be understood to prohibit a reasonable inquiry as to such candidate's views on such question or legislation. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a corrupt practice and shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.

.... No person shall knowingly register under more than one name or knowingly induce any person to so register. No person shall knowingly make any false statement on any form for registration or change of registration or upon any application or return envelope for an absent voter's ballot. Whoever violates this division is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree. (B)(1) No person who helps another person register out...

...petition, recall petition, or any other election-related petition that is filed with or transmitted to a board of elections, the office of the secretary of state, or other appropriate public office. (C) No person shall receive compensation on a fee per registration or fee per volume basis for registering a voter. (D) No person shall pay any other person for collecting signatures on election-related petitions or for...

...o vote both by absent voter's ballots under division (G) of section 3503.16 of the Revised Code and by regular ballot at the polls at the same election, or voting or attempting to vote both by absent voter's ballots under division (G) of section 3503.16 of the Revised Code and by absent voter's ballots under Chapter 3509. or armed service absent voter's ballots under Chapter 3511. of the Revised Code at the same el...

...han once; (3) Except as otherwise provided in section 3501.382 of the Revised Code, sign a name other than the person's own on such a petition; (4) Accept anything of value for signing such a petition; (5) Seek by intimidation or threats to influence any person to sign or refrain from signing such a petition, or from circulating or abstaining from circulating such a petition; (6) Sign a declaration of candidacy a...

...to obtain appointment to an office or position as a consideration for obtaining or preventing signatures to the petition or declaration; (4) Obtain or prevent signatures to the petition or declaration as a consideration for the assistance or promise of assistance of a person in securing appointment to an office or position; (5) Circulate or cause to be circulated the petition or declaration knowing it to contain fa...

...al, sell, attempt to sell, or willfully 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...

...s section shall be dismissed from his position as a member or employee of the board and is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree.

...pon conviction, be dismissed from his position as director of elections, deputy director of elections, or employee of the board of elections.

...ft at the official's usual place of residence, for examination as to the official's qualifications; (2) Fail to appear at the polling place to which the official is assigned at the hour and during the hours set for the registration or election; (3) Fail to take the oath prescribed by section 3501.31 of the Revised Code, unless excused by such board; (4) Refuse or sanction the refusal of another registrar or p...

... (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 the registration card or form of any qualified elector; (4) Neglect, unlawfully execute, or fail to execute any duty enjoined upon th...

...he precinct election official, fail to deliver, or destroy any such packages, papers, or material; (3) Receive or sanction the reception of a ballot from a person not a qualified elector or from a person who refused to answer a question in accordance with the election law; (4) Refuse to receive or sanction the rejection of a ballot from a person, knowing that person to be a qualified elector; (5) Permit a frau...

...t 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 the ballot so it may be identified after it has been cast; or attempt to interfere with an elector in the voting booth when marking the elector's ballot; or kn...

...ot illegally; (3) If the person is an election official, open, destroy, steal, mark, or mutilate any absent voter's ballot; (4) Aid or abet another person to open, destroy, steal, mark, or mutilate any absent voter's ballot after the ballot has been voted; (5) Delay the delivery of any absent voter's ballot with a view to preventing its arrival in time to be counted; (6) Hinder or attempt to hinder the delive...

...mit 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 ballots than the number the board directed to be printed. (B) Whoever ...

...trusted with the printing, custody, or delivery of registration cards or forms, ballots, blanks, pollbooks, cards of instruction, or other required papers shall do any of the following: (1) Knowingly and unlawfully open or permit to be opened a sealed package containing ballots or other printed forms; (2) Knowingly give or deliver to another not lawfully entitled to them, or unlawfully misplace or carry away, or kn...

...roy 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 polling place during registration or the casting and coun...

...ion is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree.

...lection 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 except as authorized by section 3505.24 of the Revised Code; or hand a marked ballot to an elector to vote, with intent to ascertain how the elector voted; or furnish a ballot to an elector who ...