§ 3513.19Challenges at primary elections

(A) It is the duty of any precinct election official, whenever any such official doubts that a person
attempting to vote at a primary election is legally entitled to vote at that election, to challenge the
right of that person to vote. The right of a person to vote at a primary election may be challenged
upon the following grounds:


(1) That the person whose right to vote is challenged is not a legally qualified elector;


(2) That the person has received or has been promised some valuable reward or consideration for the
person's vote;


(3) That the person is not affiliated with or is not a member of the political party whose ballot the
person desires to vote. Such party affiliation shall be determined by examining the elector's voting
record for the current year and the immediately preceding two calendar years as shown on the
voter's registration card, using the standards of affiliation specified in the seventh paragraph of
section 3513.05 of the Revised Code. Division (A)(3) of this section and the seventh paragraph of
section 3513.05 of the Revised Code do not prohibit a person who holds an elective office for
which candidates are nominated at a party primary election from doing any of the following:


(a) If the person voted as a member of a different political party at any primary election within the
current year and the immediately preceding two calendar years, being a candidate for nomination at
a party primary held during the times specified in division (C)(2) of section 3513.191 of the Revised
Code provided that the person complies with the requirements of that section;


(b) Circulating the person's own petition of candidacy for party nomination in the primary election.


(B) When the right of a person to vote is challenged upon the ground set forth in division (A)(3) of
this section, membership in or political affiliation with a political party shall be determined by the
person's statement, made under penalty of election falsification, that the person desires to be



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affiliated with and supports the principles of the political party whose primary ballot the person
desires to vote.




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