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Ohio Revised Code
Title 35 - ELECTIONS
Chapter 3505 - GENERAL AND SPECIAL ELECTION BALLOTS
Section 3505.24 - Providing assistance to blind, disabled or illiterate electors

Ohio Rev. Code § 3505.24

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Current with legislation from 2024 received as of August 15, 2024.
Section 3505.24 - Providing assistance to blind, disabled or illiterate electors

Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, any elector who does both of the following may be accompanied in the voting booth and aided by any person of the elector's choice, other than the elector's employer, an agent of the elector's employer, or an officer or agent of the elector's union, if any:

(A) Appears to vote on the day of an election or appears at the office of the board of elections to cast absent voter's ballots in person; and
(B) Declares to the presiding judge of elections or to the election official who is accepting applications to cast absent voter's ballots in person that the elector is unable to mark the elector's ballot by reason of blindness, disability, or illiteracy.

The elector also may request and receive assistance in the marking of the elector's ballot from two election officials of different political parties. Any person providing assistance in the marking of an elector's ballot under this section shall thereafter provide no information in regard to the marking of that ballot.

Any election official may require a declaration of inability to be made by the elector under oath before the election official. Assistance shall not be rendered for causes other than those specified in this section, and no candidate whose name appears on the ballot shall assist any person in marking that person's ballot.

R.C. § 3505.24

Amended by 130th General Assembly, SB 205,§1, eff. 6/1/2014.
Amended by 130th General Assembly, SB 109,§1, eff. 2/25/2014.
Amended by 130th General Assembly, SB 10,§1, eff. 6/26/2013.
Amended by 129th General Assembly, SB 295, §1, eff. 8/15/2012.
Amended by 129th General Assembly, HB 194, §1Made subject to referendum in the Nov. 6, 2012 election. The version of this section thus amended was repealed by 129th General Assembly, SB 295, §1, eff. 8/15/2012.
Effective Date: 08-28-2001 .