§ 3509.04Delivery of absent voter's ballot

(A) If a board of elections receives an application for absent voter's ballots that does not contain all
of the required information or is not submitted on an appropriate form, the board promptly shall
notify the applicant of the additional information required to be provided by the applicant to
complete that application, direct the applicant to use an appropriate form, or both, as applicable.


(B) Upon receipt by the board of elections of an application for absent voter's ballots that contains all
of the required information and is submitted on an appropriate form, as provided by section 3509.03
and division (G) of section 3503.16 of the Revised Code, the board, if the board finds that the
applicant is a qualified elector, shall deliver to the applicant in person or mail directly to the
applicant by special delivery mail, air mail, or regular mail, postage prepaid, proper absent voter's
ballots. The board shall deliver or mail with the ballots an unsealed identification envelope upon the
face of which shall be printed a form substantially as follows:


"Identification Envelope Statement of Voter


I, ________________________(Name of voter), declare under penalty of election falsification that
the within ballot or ballots contained no voting marks of any kind when I received them, and I
caused the ballot or ballots to be marked, enclosed in the identification envelope, and sealed in that
envelope.


My voting residence in Ohio is


________________________________________________________________


(Street and Number, if any, or Rural Route and Number)


of ________________________________ (City, Village, or Township) Ohio, which is in Ward
_____________ Precinct ________________ in that city, village, or township.



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If I have a confidential voter registration record, I am providing my program participant
identification number instead of my residence address: ________________________


The primary election ballots, if any, within this envelope are primary election ballots of the
_____________ Party.


Ballots contained within this envelope are to be voted at the __________ (general, special, or
primary) election to be held on the __________________________ day of
______________________, ____.


My date of birth is _______________ (Month and Day), __________ (Year).


(Voter must provide one of the following:)


My Ohio driver's license or state identification card number is _______________ (Driver's license or
state identification card number).


The last four digits of my Social Security Number are _______________ (Last four digits of Social
Security Number).


______ In lieu of providing a driver's license or state identification card number or the last four
digits of my Social Security Number, I am enclosing a copy of my photo identification in the return
envelope in which this identification envelope will be mailed.


I hereby declare, under penalty of election falsification, that the statements above are true, as I verily
believe.


_________________________


(Signature of Voter)


WHOEVER COMMITS ELECTION FALSIFICATION IS GUILTY OF A FELONY OF THE



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FIFTH DEGREE."


The board shall mail with the ballots and the unsealed identification envelope an unsealed return
envelope upon the face of which shall be printed the post-office address of the board. In the upper
left corner on the face of the return envelope, several blank lines shall be printed upon which the
voter may write the voter's name and return address. The return envelope shall be of such size that
the identification envelope can be conveniently placed within it for returning the identification
envelope to the board.


No public office, and no public official or employee who is acting in an official capacity, shall
prepay the return postage for any absent voter's ballots.


Except as otherwise provided in this section and in sections 3505.24 and 3509.08 of the Revised
Code, an election official shall not fill out any portion of an identification envelope statement of
voter or an absent voter's ballot on behalf of an elector. A board of elections may preprint only an
elector's name and address on an identification envelope statement of voter before mailing absent
voter's ballots to the elector, except that if the elector has a confidential voter registration record, as
described in section 111.44 of the Revised Code, the board of elections shall not preprint the elector's
address on the identification envelope statement of voter.




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