Sec. 3505.18. When(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in | 7 |
| division (A)(2) of this section, when an elector appears in a | 8 |
polling place
to vote he, the elector shall announce histo the | 9 |
precinct election officials the
elector's full name and address to | 10 |
the
precinct election officialsand provide to them proof of the | 11 |
| elector's identity in the form of a current valid driver's license | 12 |
or other current valid photo identification. He | 13 |
| (2) If the election for which the elector appears in a | 14 |
| polling place to vote is a federal election, if the elector | 15 |
| registered to vote by mail, and if the elector has not previously | 16 |
| voted in an election for federal office in this state, the elector | 17 |
| shall announce to the precinct election officials the elector's | 18 |
| full name and address and provide to them proof of the elector's | 19 |
| identity in the form of a current valid photo identification or a | 20 |
| copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, | 21 |
| paycheck, or other government document that shows the name and | 22 |
| address of the elector. If such an elector does not provide to the | 23 |
| precinct election officials any of the forms of identification | 24 |
| specified in this division, the elector may cast a provisional | 25 |
| ballot in that federal election under 42 U.S.C. 15482. | 26 |
| (B) After the elector has announced the elector's full name | 27 |
| and address and provided identification under division (A) of this | 28 |
section, the elector shall then write
histhe elector's name and | 29 |
|
address at the proper place in the poll lists or signature | 30 |
pollbooks provided thereforfor the purpose, except that if, for | 31 |
any reason, an
elector shall beis unable to write histhe | 32 |
| elector's name and
address in the poll
list or signature pollbook, | 33 |
the elector may make histhe
elector's mark at the
place intended | 34 |
for histhe elector's name, and a precinct election
official shall | 35 |
| write
the name of the elector at the proper place on the poll list | 36 |
or
signature pollbook following the elector's mark, upon the | 37 |
presentation of proper identification. The making of such a mark | 38 |
|
shall be attested by the precinct election official, who shall | 39 |
evidence the
same by signing histhe precinct election official's | 40 |
name on the poll
list or signature pollbook
as a witness to such | 41 |
| the mark. | 42 |
| The elector's signature in the poll lists or signature | 43 |
pollbooks shall then shall be compared with histhe elector's | 44 |
signature on histhe elector's
registration form or a digitized | 45 |
| signature list as provided for
in section 3503.13 of the Revised | 46 |
| Code, and if, in the opinion of
a majority of the precinct | 47 |
| election officials, the signatures are
the signatures of the same | 48 |
| person, the clerks shall enter the
date of the election on the | 49 |
registration form or shall record the
date by such other means as | 50 |
may be prescribed by the secretary of
state. If the right of the | 51 |
| elector to vote is not then
challenged, or, if being challenged, | 52 |
hethe elector establishes
histhe elector's right to
vote, hethe | 53 |
elector shall be allowed to proceed intoto use the voting | 54 |
|
machine. If
voting machines are not being used in that precinct, | 55 |
| the judge in
charge of ballots shall then detach the next ballots | 56 |
| to be issued
to the elector from Stub B attached to each ballot, | 57 |
| leaving Stub
A attached to each ballot, hand the ballots to the | 58 |
elector, and
call histhe elector's name and the stub number on | 59 |
| each of the
ballots. The
clerk shall enter the stub numbers | 60 |
| opposite the signature of the
elector in the pollbook. The elector | 61 |
shall then retire to one of
the voting compartments to mark his | 62 |
| the elector's ballots. No
mark shall be
made on any ballot which | 63 |
| would in any way enable any person to
identify the person who | 64 |
| voted the ballot. | 65 |