3501.012 Voter application not to be refused due to specified requirements.

3501.012 Voter application not to be refused due to specified requirements.

Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, the secretary of state or a board of elections shall not refuse to accept and process an otherwise valid voter registration application, absent voter’s ballot application, uniformed services and overseas absent voter’s ballot application, returned absent voter’s ballot, returned uniformed services and overseas absent voter’s ballot, or federal write-in absentee ballot from an individual who is eligible to vote as a uniformed services voter or an overseas voter in accordance with 42 U.S.C. 1973ff-6 due to any requirements regarding notarization, paper type, paper weight and size, envelope type, or envelope weight and size.

Added by 128th General Assembly File No. 29, HB 48, § 1, eff. 7/2/2010.