Sub. H.B. 5
128th General Assembly
The Conference Committee recommends the bill as passed by the Senate with the following changes:
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House |
Senate |
Conference Committee |
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)). · 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). |
No provision. |
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