Sec. 3509.01. (A) The board of elections of each county shall | 5 |
provide absent voter's ballots for use at every primary and | 6 |
general election, or special election to be held on the day | 7 |
specified by division (E) of section 3501.01 of the Revised Code | 8 |
for the holding of a primary election, designated by the general | 9 |
assembly for the purpose of submitting constitutional amendments | 10 |
proposed by the general assembly to the voters of the state. Those | 11 |
ballots shall be the same size, shall be printed on the same kind | 12 |
of paper, and shall be in the same form as has been approved for | 13 |
use at the election for which those ballots are to be voted; | 14 |
except that, in counties using marking devices, ballot cards may | 15 |
be used for absent voter's ballots, and those absent voters shall | 16 |
be instructed to record the vote in the manner provided on the | 17 |
ballot cards. In counties where punch card ballots are used, those | 18 |
absent voters shall be instructed to examine their marked ballot | 19 |
cards and to remove any chads that remain partially attached to | 20 |
them before returning them to election officials. | 21 |
(C) Absent voter's ballots provided for use at a general or | 47 |
primary election, or special election to be held on the day | 48 |
specified by division (E) of section 3501.01 of the Revised Code | 49 |
for the holding of a primary election, designated by the general | 50 |
assembly for the purpose of submitting constitutional amendments | 51 |
proposed by the general assembly to the voters of the state, shall | 52 |
include only those questions, issues, and candidacies that have | 53 |
been lawfully ordered submitted to the electors voting at that | 54 |
election. | 55 |
(D) If the laws governing the holding of a special election | 56 |
on a day other than the day on which a primary or general election | 57 |
is held make it impossible for absent voter's ballots to be | 58 |
printed and ready for use by the deadlines established in division | 59 |
(B) of this section, absent voter's ballots for those special | 60 |
elections shall be ready for use as many days before the day of | 61 |
the election as reasonably possible under the laws governing the | 62 |
holding of that special election. | 63 |
Sec. 3511.10. If, after the thirty-fifthfirst day after the | 69 |
close of voter registration before a general or primary election | 70 |
and before the close of the polls on the day of a general or | 71 |
primarythat election, a valid application for uniformed services | 72 |
or overseas absent voter's ballots is delivered to the director of | 73 |
the board of elections at the office of the board by a person | 74 |
making the application on the person's own behalf, the director | 75 |
shall forthwith deliver to the person all uniformed services or | 76 |
overseas absent voter's ballots then ready for use, together with | 77 |
an identification envelope. The person shall then immediately | 78 |
retire to a voting booth in the office of the board, and mark the | 79 |
ballots. The person shall then fold each ballot separately so as | 80 |
to conceal the person's markings thereon, and deposit all of the | 81 |
ballots in the identification envelope and securely seal it. | 82 |
Thereupon the person shall fill in answers to the questions on the | 83 |
face of the identification envelope, and by writing the person's | 84 |
usual signature in the proper place thereon, the person shall | 85 |
declare under penalty of election falsification that the answers | 86 |
to those questions are true and correct to the best of that | 87 |
person's knowledge and belief. The person shall then deliver the | 88 |
identification envelope to the director. If thereafter, and before | 89 |
the third day preceding such election, the board provides | 90 |
additional separate official issue or special election ballots, as | 91 |
provided for in section 3511.04 of the Revised Code, the director | 92 |
shall promptly, and not later than twelve noon of the third day | 93 |
preceding the day of election, mail such additional ballots to | 94 |
such person at the address specified by that person for that | 95 |
purpose. | 96 |
In the event any person serving in the armed forces of the | 97 |
United States is discharged after the closing date of | 98 |
registration, and that person or that person's spouse, or both, | 99 |
meets all the other qualifications set forth in section 3511.011 | 100 |
of the Revised Code, the person or spouse shall be permitted to | 101 |
vote prior to the date of the election in the office of the board | 102 |
in the person's or spouse's county, as set forth in this section. | 103 |