Special Congressional elections

No provision.

No provision.

Permits a board of elections that conducts a special election on or before August 4, 2010, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the office of Congressional Representative to conduct that election using a limited number of polling places (Section 3(A)).

Requires a board of elections that conducts such an election to do all of the following (Section 3(A)):

·         Send a notification by mail, to each address in the county at which an elector who is eligible to vote in the special election resides to inform the elector of the special election and of the elector's polling place for that election;

·         Establish not more than four polling places at which electors may vote in that election;

·         Permit individuals who are eligible to cast a provisional ballot to cast those ballots at the office of the board of elections; and

·         Include the following statement in the notification "If you are a member of the <political party conducting the primary election> or support the principles of the <political party conducting the primary election> and wish to vote in that party's congressional primary election, your voting location for that primary election will be <insert polling location>."

Specifies that a board of elections that conducts such an election is not required to notify voters, for the next regular state election, of the elector's proper precinct polling location for that election (Section 3(B)).

Emergency clause

No provision.

No provision.

Declares Section 3 of the act to be an emergency measure due to the high costs of conducting a special election in each precinct polling place in a congressional district (Section 4).

Candidate appearance in state agency or publicly funded ads

No provision.

Prohibits a state agency from using the name, official position, likeness, image, or voice of a candidate in any television or radio advertising in the calendar year in which the candidate is seeking nomination or election and establishes associated penalties (R.C. 3517.13 and 3517.992).

Prohibits a candidate from knowingly appearing in or knowingly using the person's name, official position, likeness, image, or voice, during the calendar year in which the person is seeking nomination or election, in any television or radio advertising with an aggregate cost exceeding $10,000 that is funded directly or indirectly by state or federal moneys and establishes associated penalties (R.C. 3517.13 and 3517.992).

No provision.