§ 3505.04Nonpartisan ballot

On the nonpartisan ballot shall be printed the names of all nonpartisan candidates for
election to the office of judge of a municipal court, county court, or court of common pleas, the
office of member of a board of education, municipal or township offices for municipal
corporations and townships in which primary elections are not held for nomination of
candidates by political parties, and municipal offices of municipal corporations having charters
which provide for separate ballots for elections for such municipal offices.
Such ballots shall have printed across the top, and below the stubs, "Official Nonpartisan
Ballot."
 The order in which the offices are listed on the ballot shall be prescribed by, and certified to
each board of elections by, the secretary of state; provided that county judicial offices shall be
listed first on the ballot, followed by municipal and township offices, and by offices of member
of a board of education, in the order stated.
 Within the rectangular space within which the title of each judicial office is printed on the
ballot and immediately below such title shall be printed the date of the commencement of the
term of the office, if a full term, as follows: "Full term commencing _______(Date)_______," or
the date of the end of the term of the office, if an unexpired term, as follows: "Unexpired term
ending _______(Date)________"
 Within the rectangular space within which the title of each office for member of a board of
education is printed on the ballot shall be printed "For Member of Board of Education," and
the number to be elected, directions to the voter as to voting for one, two, or more, and, if the
office to be voted for is member of a board of education of a city school district, words shall be
printed in said space on the ballot to indicate whether candidates are to be elected from
subdistricts or at large.
 The names of all nonpartisan candidates for an office shall be arranged in a group under the
title of that office, and shall be rotated and printed on the ballot as provided in section 3505.03
of the Revised Code.
No name or designation of any political party nor any words, designations, or emblems
descriptive of a candidate or the candidate's political affiliation, or indicative of the method by



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which such candidate was nominated or certified, shall be printed under or after any
nonpartisan candidate's name which is printed on the ballot.




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