3505.24 Provising assistance to blind, disabled or illiterate electors. - Ohio Statutes

3505.24 Provising assistance to blind, disabled or illiterate electors.

Any elector who declares to the presiding judge of elections that the elector is unable to mark the elector’s ballot by reason of blindness, disability, or illiteracy may be accompanied in the voting booth and aided by any person of the elector’s choice, other than the elector’s employer, an agent of the elector’s employer, or an officer or agent of the elector’s union, if any. The elector also may request and receive assistance in the marking of the elector’s ballot from two election officials of different political parties. Any person providing assistance in the marking of an elector’s ballot under this section shall thereafter provide no information in regard to the marking of that ballot.

Any judge may require a declaration of inability to be made by the elector under oath before the judge. Assistance shall not be rendered for causes other than those specified in this section, and no candidate whose name appears on the ballot shall assist any person in marking that person’s ballot.

Effective Date: 08-28-2001