§ 3599.23Prohibitions concerning election materials or papers

(A) No printer or other person entrusted with the printing, custody, or delivery of registration cards
or forms, ballots, blanks, pollbooks, cards of instruction, or other required papers shall do any of the
following:


(1) Knowingly and unlawfully open or permit to be opened a sealed package containing ballots or
other printed forms;


(2) Knowingly give or deliver to another not lawfully entitled to them, or unlawfully misplace or
carry away, or knowingly fail to deliver, or knowingly destroy any such forms or packages of ballots,
or a ballot, pollbooks, cards of instruction, or other required papers;


(3) Negligently lose or permit to be taken from the printer or other entrusted person any of the
materials described in division (A)(2) of this section.


(B) No person entrusted with the preparation, custody, or delivery of marking devices shall do either
of the following:


(1) Unlawfully open or permit to be opened a sealed package containing marking devices, or give or
deliver to another not lawfully entitled to them any such marking devices;


(2) Unlawfully or carelessly use or negligently lose or permit to be taken from the printer or other
entrusted person and fail to deliver or destroy any such marking devices.


(C) Whoever violates division (A)(1) or (2) or (B) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the
first degree. Whoever violates division (A)(3) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the
second degree.




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