Bill Text: OH HB514 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: To place the office of chief justice of the supreme court and justice of the supreme court first and second, respectively, in order on the nonpartisan ballot.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-03 - To Policy and Legislative Oversight [HB514 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-HB514-Introduced.html
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Representative Letson
To amend section 3505.04 of the Revised Code to place | 1 |
the office of chief justice of the supreme court | 2 |
and justice of the supreme court first and second, | 3 |
respectively, in order on the nonpartisan ballot. | 4 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 3505.04 of the Revised Code be | 5 |
amended to read as follows: | 6 |
Sec. 3505.04. On the nonpartisan ballot shall be printed the | 7 |
names of all nonpartisan candidates for election to judicial | 8 |
office, office of member of the state board of education, office | 9 |
of member of a board of education, municipal or township offices | 10 |
for municipal corporations and townships in which primary | 11 |
elections are not held for nomination of candidates by political | 12 |
parties, and municipal offices of municipal corporations having | 13 |
charters which provide for separate ballots for elections for such | 14 |
municipal offices. | 15 |
Such ballots shall have printed across the top, and below the | 16 |
stubs, "Official Nonpartisan Ballot." | 17 |
The order in which the offices are listed on the ballot shall | 18 |
be prescribed by, and certified to each board of elections by, the | 19 |
secretary of state; provided that the office of | 20 |
justice of the | 21 |
listed first on the ballot, then the office of supreme court | 22 |
justice, then the office of member of the state board of | 23 |
education, then state, district, and county judicial offices shall | 24 |
be listed on the ballot in such order, followed by municipal and | 25 |
township offices, and by offices of member of a board of | 26 |
education, in the order stated. | 27 |
Within the rectangular space within which the title of each | 28 |
judicial office is printed on the ballot and immediately below | 29 |
such title shall be printed the date of the commencement of the | 30 |
term of the office, if a full term, as follows: "Full term | 31 |
commencing .......(Date).......," or the date of the end of the | 32 |
term of the office, if an unexpired term, as follows: "Unexpired | 33 |
term ending .......(Date)........" | 34 |
The secretary of state shall prescribe the information and | 35 |
directions to the voter to be printed on the ballot within the | 36 |
rectangular space in which the title of office of member of the | 37 |
state board of education appears. | 38 |
Within the rectangular space within which the title of each | 39 |
office for member of a board of education is printed on the ballot | 40 |
shall be printed "For Member of Board of Education," and the | 41 |
number to be elected, directions to the voter as to voting for | 42 |
one, two, or more, and, if the office to be voted for is member of | 43 |
a board of education of a city school district, words shall be | 44 |
printed in said space on the ballot to indicate whether candidates | 45 |
are to be elected from subdistricts or at large. | 46 |
The names of all nonpartisan candidates for an office shall | 47 |
be arranged in a group under the title of that office, and shall | 48 |
be rotated and printed on the ballot as provided in section | 49 |
3505.03 of the Revised Code. | 50 |
No name or designation of any political party nor any words, | 51 |
designations, or emblems descriptive of a candidate or | 52 |
candidate's political affiliation, or indicative of the method by | 53 |
which such candidate was nominated or certified, shall be printed | 54 |
under or after any nonpartisan candidate's name which is printed | 55 |
on the ballot. | 56 |
Section 2. That existing section 3505.04 of the Revised Code | 57 |
is hereby repealed. | 58 |