§ 3599.11False voter registration - registration forms

(A) No person shall knowingly register or make application or attempt to register in a precinct in
which the person is not a qualified voter; or knowingly aid or abet any person to so register; or
attempt to register or knowingly induce or attempt to induce any person to so register; or knowingly
impersonate another or write or assume the name of another, real or fictitious, in registering or
attempting to register; or by false statement or other unlawful means procure, aid, or attempt to
procure the erasure or striking out on the register or duplicate list of the name of a qualified elector
therein; or knowingly induce or attempt to induce a registrar or other election authority to refuse
registration in a precinct to an elector thereof; or knowingly swear or affirm falsely upon a lawful
examination by or before any registering officer; or make, print, or issue any false or counterfeit
certificate of registration or knowingly alter any certificate of registration.


No person shall knowingly register under more than one name or knowingly induce any person to so
register.


No person shall knowingly make any false statement on any form for registration or change of
registration or upon any application or return envelope for an absent voter's ballot.


Whoever violates this division is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree.


(B)(1) No person who helps another person register outside an official voter registration place shall
knowingly destroy, or knowingly help another person to destroy, any completed registration form.


Whoever violates this division is guilty of election falsification, a felony of the fifth degree.


(2)(a) No person who helps another person register outside an official voter registration place shall
knowingly fail to return any registration form entrusted to that person to any board of elections or the
office of the secretary of state within ten days after that regsitration form is completed, or on or
before the thirtieth day before the election, whichever day is earlier, unless the registration form is



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received by the person within twenty-four hours of the thirtieth day before the election, in which case
the person shall return the registration form to any board of elections or the office of the secretary of
state within ten days of its receipt.


Whoever violates this division is guilty of election falsification, a felony of the fifth degree, unless
the person has not previously been convicted of a violation of division (B)(2)(a), (B)(2)(b), (C)(1), or
(C)(2) of this section, the violation of this division does not cause any person to miss any voter
registration deadline with regard to any election, and the number of voter registration forms that the
violator has failed to properly return does not exceed forty-nine, in which case the violator is guilty
of a misdemeanor of the first degree.


(b) Subject to division (C)(2) of this section, no person who helps another person register outside an
official registration place shall knowingly return any registration form entrusted to that person to any
location other than any board of elections or the office of the secretary of state.


Whoever violates this division is guilty of election falsification, a felony of the fifth degree, unless
the person has not previously been convicted of a violation of division (B)(2)(a), (B)(2)(b), (C)(1), or
(C)(2) of this section, the violation of this division does not cause any person to miss any voter
registration deadline with regard to any election, and the number of voter registration forms that the
violator has failed to properly return does not exceed forty-nine, in which case the violator is guilty
of a misdemeanor of the first degree.


(C)(1) No person who receives compensation for registering a voter shall knowingly fail to return
any registration form entrusted to that person to any board of elections or the office of the secretary
of state within ten days after that voter registration form is completed, or on or before the thirtieth
day before the election, whichever is earlier, unless the registration form is received by the person
within twenty-four hours of the thirtieth day before the election, in which case the person shall return
the registration form to any board of elections or the office of the secrtary of state within ten days of
its receipt.


Whoever violates this division is guilty of election falsification, a felony of the fifth degree, unless
the person has not previously been convicted of a violation of division (B)(2)(a), (B)(2)(b), (C)(1), or
(C)(2) of this section, the violation of this division does not cause any person to miss any voter



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registration deadline with regard to any election, and the number of voter registration forms that the
violator has failed to properly return does not exceed forty-nine, in which case the violator is guilty
of a misdemeanor of the first degree.


(2) No person who receives compensation for registering a voter shall knowingly return any
registration form entrusted to that person to any location other than any board of elections or the
office of the secretary of state.


Whoever violates this division is guilty of election falsification, a felony of the fifth degree, unless
the person has not previously been convicted of a violation of division (B)(2)(a), (B)(2)(b), (C)(1), or
(C)(2) of this section, the violation of this division does not cause any person to miss any voter
registration deadline with regard to any election, and the number of voter registration forms that the
violator has failed to properly return does not exceed forty-nine, in which case the violator is guilty
of a misdemeanor of the first degree.


(D) As used in division (C) of this section, "registering a voter" includes any effort, for
compensation, to provide voter registration forms or to assist persons in completing or returning
those forms.




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