§ 3523.04Candidates - qualifications - nomination

The number of delegates to be chosen to the convention provided for by section 3523.01 of the
Revised Code shall be fifty-two, to be elected from the state at large.


Candidates for the office of delegate to the convention shall be citizens and residents of the state and
of age. Nomination of candidates for the office of delegate shall be by petition and not otherwise. A
single petition may nominate any number of candidates not exceeding the total number of delegates
to be elected, and shall be signed by not less than five thousands voters. Nomination shall be without
party or political designation, but the nominating petitions shall contain a statement as to each
nominee, to the effect that he favors ratification, or that he opposes ratification, or that he will remain
unpledged, and no nominating petition shall contain the name of any nominee whose position as
stated therein is inconsistent with that of any other nominee as stated therein. No nomination shall be
effective except those of the fifty-two nominees in favor of ratification, the fifty-two nominees
against ratification, and the fifty-two nominees to remain unpledged, whose nominating petitions
have respectively been signed by the largest number of voters, ties to be decided by lot drawn by the
secretary of state. Within ten days after the petitions are filed, the secretary of state shall certify the
candidates of each group to the appropriate local election authorities. All petitions and acceptances
thereof shall be filed with the secretary of state not less than thirty days before the proclaimed date of
the election.




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