TrustVoting Atlas

(A)(1) When an elector appears in a polling place to vote, the elector shall announce to the precinct
election officials the elector's full name and current address and provide photo identification.


(2) If an elector does not have or is unable to provide photo identification to the precinct election
officials, the elector may cast a provisional ballot under section 3505.181 of the Revised Code.


(3) If the elector provides photo identification in the form of the elector's Ohio driver's license, state
identification card, or interim identification form and the photo identification includes a notation
designating that the individual is a noncitizen of the United States, the election officials shall
challenge the elector's right to vote under division (A) of section 3505.20 of the Revised Code.


(B) After the elector has announced the elector's full name and current address and provided photo
identification, the elector shall confirm the elector's name and address by signing the elector's name
at the proper place in the poll list or signature pollbook provided for the purpose, except that if, for
any reason, an elector is unable to sign the elector's name in the poll list or signature pollbook, the
elector may make the elector's mark at the place intended for the elector's name, and a precinct
election official shall write the name of the elector at the proper place on the poll list or signature
pollbook following the elector's mark. The making of such a mark shall be attested by the precinct
election official, who shall evidence the same by signing the precinct election official's name on the
poll list or signature pollbook as a witness to the mark. Alternatively, if applicable, an attorney in
fact acting pursuant to section 3501.382 of the Revised Code may sign the elector's signature in the
poll list or signature pollbook in accordance with that section.


The elector's signature in the poll list or signature pollbook then shall be compared with the elector's
signature on the elector's registration form or a digitized signature list as provided for in section
3503.13 of the Revised Code, and if, in the opinion of a majority of the precinct election officials,
the signatures are the signatures of the same person, the election officials shall enter the date of the
election on the registration form or shall record the date by other means prescribed by the secretary



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of state. The validity of an attorney in fact's signature on behalf of an elector shall be determined in
accordance with section 3501.382 of the Revised Code.


If the right of the elector to vote is not then challenged, or, if being challenged, the elector establishes
the elector's right to vote, the elector shall be allowed to proceed to use the voting machine. If voting
machines are not being used in that precinct, the precinct election official in charge of ballots shall
then detach the next ballots to be issued to the elector from Stub B attached to each ballot, leaving
Stub A attached to each ballot, hand the ballots to the elector, and call the elector's name and the stub
number on each of the ballots. The precinct election official shall enter the stub numbers opposite the
signature of the elector in the pollbook. The elector shall then retire to one of the voting
compartments to mark the elector's ballots. No mark shall be made on any ballot which would in any
way enable any person to identify the person who voted the ballot.




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