Effective: February 25, 2014
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 109 - 130th General Assembly
Before the opening of the polls, the package of supplies and the ballot box shall be opened in the presence of the precinct officials. The ballot box, the package of ballots, registration forms, and other supplies shall at all times be in full sight of the observers, and no ballot box or unused ballots during the balloting or counting shall be removed or screened from their full sight until the counting has been closed and the final returns completed and the certificate signed by the judges.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Chapter 3505 | General and Special Election Ballots
Section 3505.01 | Forms of Official Ballots.
Section 3505.02 | Former Names Printed in Parentheses on Ballot.
Section 3505.021 | Candidates With Identical Given Names and Surnames.
Section 3505.03 | Office Type Ballots.
Section 3505.04 | Nonpartisan Ballot.
Section 3505.06 | Questions and Issues Ballot.
Section 3505.061 | Ohio Ballot Board.
Section 3505.062 | Ohio Ballot Board Duties.
Section 3505.063 | Proposed Constitutional Amendments - Official Explanation and Arguments.
Section 3505.07 | Separate Ballots for Candidates, Question, or Issue.
Section 3505.071 | Ballots in Joint County School Districts.
Section 3505.08 | Ballot Material - Stubs.
Section 3505.09 | Separate Ballots for Each Precinct and District.
Section 3505.10 | Presidential Ballot.
Section 3505.11 | Quantity of Ballots to Be Provided.
Section 3505.12 | Type Size and Voting Instructions.
Section 3505.13 | Contract for Printing Ballots.
Section 3505.14 | Printed Proofs of Ballot.
Section 3505.15 | Ballot Packaging.
Section 3505.16 | Ballot Boxes and Supplies Placement at Polling Place.
Section 3505.17 | Lost or Destroyed Ballots or Supplies.
Section 3505.18 | Procedure When Elector Entered Polling Place.
Section 3505.181 | Eligibility to Cast Provisional Ballot - Procedure.
Section 3505.182 | Provisional Ballot Affirmation - Verification.
Section 3505.183 | Testing and Counting of Provisional Ballots - Rejection.
Section 3505.20 | Challenge of Elector at Polling Place.
Section 3505.21 | Appointment of Challengers and Witnesses.
Section 3505.22 | Impersonating an Elector.
Section 3505.23 | Time Limit for Occupying Voting Compartment - Errors in Voting - Marking Ballot.
Section 3505.24 | Providing Assistance to Blind, Disabled or Illiterate Electors.
Section 3505.26 | Closing Polls Procedures.
Section 3505.27 | Counting and Tallying of Ballots.
Section 3505.28 | Rejection of Ballots.
Section 3505.29 | Precinct Election Officials Not to Separate or Leave Until Counting Completed.
Section 3505.30 | Summary Statement of Results.
Section 3505.31 | Sealing Ballots, Pollbooks, Poll Lists or Signature Pollbooks, Tally Sheets.
Section 3505.32 | Canvass of Election Returns.
Section 3505.33 | Declaration of Election Results - Tie Votes - Abstracts and Report of Votes.
Section 3505.331 | Audit of Election Results.
Section 3505.34 | Canvass of Abstracts of Votes for State Executive Offices by General Assembly.
Section 3505.35 | Canvass of Abstracts by Secretary of State.
Section 3505.36 | Canvass of Abstracts of Multi County Candidates and Issues.
Section 3505.38 | Certificates of Election.
Section 3505.39 | Meeting of State's Presidential Electors.
Section 3505.40 | Electoral Vote to Be Cast for Party Nominees.