§ 3511.04Ballot sent by mail, facsimile machine or other means

(A) If a board of elections receives an application for uniformed services or overseas 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) Not later than the forty-sixth day before the day of each general or primary election, and at the
earliest possible time before the day of a special election held on a day other than the day on which a
general or primary election is held, the board of elections shall mail, send by facsimile machine, send
by electronic mail, send through internet delivery if such delivery is offered by the board of elections
or the secretary of state, or otherwise send uniformed services or overseas absent voter's ballots then
ready for use as provided for in section 3511.03 of the Revised Code and for which the board has
received valid applications prior to that time. Thereafter, and until the close of business on the
seventh day preceding the day of election, the board shall promptly, upon receipt of valid
applications for them, mail, send by facsimile machine, send by electronic mail, send through
internet delivery if such delivery is offered by the board of elections or the secretary of state, or
otherwise send to the proper persons all uniformed services or overseas absent voter's ballots then
ready for use.


If, after the seventieth day before the day of a general or primary election, any other question, issue,
or candidacy is lawfully ordered submitted to the electors voting at the general or primary election,
the board shall promptly provide a separate official issue, special election, or other election ballot for
submitting the question, issue, or candidacy to those electors, and the board shall promptly mail,
send by facsimile machine, send by electronic mail, send through internet delivery if such delivery is
offered by the board of elections or the secretary of state, or otherwise send each such separate ballot
to each person to whom the board has previously mailed or sent other uniformed services or overseas
absent voter's ballots.




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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. In mailing uniformed services or overseas
absent voter's ballots, the board shall use the fastest mail service available, but the board shall not
mail them by certified mail.




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