Ohio Revised Code|Section 3501.02 | General election - time for holding.

                                                
General elections in the state and its  political subdivisions shall be held as follows: 
(A) For the election of electors of president and  vice-president of the United States, in the year of 1932 and every  four years thereafter;
(B) For the election of a member of the senate of the United  States, in the years 1932 and 1934, and every six years after each  of such years; except as otherwise provided for filling vacancies;
(C) For the election of representatives in the congress of  the United States and of elective state and county officers  including elected members of the state board of education, in the  even-numbered years; except as otherwise provided for filling  vacancies;
(D) For municipal and township officers, members of boards of  education, judges and clerks of municipal courts, in the  odd-numbered years;
(E) Proposed constitutional amendments or proposed measures  submitted by the general assembly or by initiative or referendum  petitions to the voters of the state at large may be submitted to  the general election in any year occurring at least sixty days, in  case of a referendum, and ninety days, in  the case of an initiated measure, subsequent to the filing of the  petitions therefor. Proposed constitutional amendments submitted  by the general assembly to the voters of the state at large may be  submitted at a special election occurring on the day in any year  specified by division (E) of section 3501.01 of the Revised Code  for the holding of a primary election, when a special election on  that date is designated by the general assembly in the resolution  adopting the proposed constitutional amendment. 
No special election shall be held on a day other than the day  of a general election, unless a law or charter provides otherwise,  regarding the submission of a question or issue to the voters of a  county, township, city, village, or school district.
(F)(1) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to  the contrary, any question or issue, except a candidacy, to be  voted upon at an election shall be certified, for placement upon  the ballot, to the board of elections not later than four p.m. of  the ninetieth day before the day of the election.
(2) Any question or issue that is certified for placement on  a ballot on or after the effective date of this amendment shall be certified not later than the ninetieth day before  the day of the applicable election, notwithstanding any deadlines  appearing in any section of the Revised Code governing the  placement of that question or issue on the ballot.


Last updated November 3, 2021 at 3:41 PM