19. The Secretary of State shall establish statewide uniform election auditing procedures in Ohio that are random and transparent in compliance with applicable federal and state laws.
- (a) Random audits shall include audits that match the number of signatures in the pollbooks with the number of actual certified ballots cast in the precinct.
(b) All county Boards of Elections shall report the actual number of voters per precinct for audit purposes, including early and absentees votes that may have been previously placed in special or separate precincts.
(c) All county Boards of Elections shall notify the Secretary of State of any pollbooks unsigned by pollworkers at the end of Election Day.
- (a) Convicted felons shall be placed on an "inactive" list and remain on that list until their voting rights are restored under Ohio law.
(b) Purges shall take place only upon notice of a death certificate, renunciation of citizenship, official notice from the voter, or from the post office or other government entity, that the voter no longer resides in the state.
(c) Inactive voters may be placed on an "inactive" list but not purged from county voter rolls and remain eligible to vote with proof of residency.
(d) No individual or private vendor shall be allowed to remove a voter’s name from any registration list. The removal of any voting registration record shall be authorized by at least two officials from two different political parties.
(e) Any voter registration record purged from a voting roll at the state or county level shall require the persons authorizing the removal to sign their signatures to the action and state the specific grounds upon which the voter was purged.
(f) Records of voters purged from the voter registration list shall be made available for public inspection and copying. If any code is utilized to identify the reason for removal or the officials authorizing the removal, a key defining each code or symbol shall be made accessible to the public along with the voter purge list.
(g) A standard defined as "a high degree of certainty" shall be the criteria for any purge in Ohio. This is defined as a purge based on, at a minimum, a match with a death certificate that includes last name, first name, middle name, prefix, suffix, date of birth, address, and/or a driver’s license number.
(h) The Secretary of State’s office and the county Boards of Elections shall provide public notice of any organized statewide or countywide voter purges two weeks prior to the purge and provide an explanation of the standards for purging, how the purge is to be conducted in a transparent manner, and where and when the list of purged voters will be posted.
(i) Before any voter is removed from the rolls for any reason, other than a death certificate, he or she shall be given reasonable notice and given the opportunity to correct any errors or omissions or to demonstrate eligibility.
22. The Secretary of State shall establish that all voting machines provide the voters with a viewable paper record of their vote.
23. The Secretary of State shall establish statewide uniform procedures for the timely delivery and pick up of all absentee ballots.
25. The Secretary of State shall establish statewide uniform provisional balloting procedures requiring only the minimal amount of information needed to establish a lawful vote.
26. The Secretary of State shall establish statewide uniform provisional balloting procedures counting all provisional votes cast for issues and candidates from the municipal level to the presidency if the voter is eligible to vote in that specific county.
27. The Secretary of State shall establish statewide uniform pollworker training on provisional balloting procedures.
28. The Secretary of State shall establish statewide uniform provisional balloting procedures in compliance with state and federal laws, requiring that provisional ballots are counted and stored, and the reasons given if any provisional ballots are excluded from the official tally.
29. The Secretary of State will issue a direction that no provisional ballots or parts thereof, including sleeves or envelopes shall be destroyed or discarded.
30. The Secretary of State shall study the expansion or relocation of additional neighborhood precincts and make specific recommendations to county Boards of Elections regarding the need to establish new precincts, or new locations, to make voting more accessible and to end disparate treatment based on race, creed, color, religion or disability status.
31. The Secretary of State shall establish three months prior to the election fixed locations for precinct polling places that shall not be altered unless an official emergency is declared by local, state or federal officials. The Secretary of State’s website shall contain an official list of all polling locations as shall the websites of county Board of Elections.
32. The Secretary of State shall approve or reassign all county Board of Elections precinct locations to ensure that no disparate treatment exists based on race, creed, color, religion, ethnic origin or disability status.
33. The Secretary of State shall establish statewide uniform procedures for the assignment of voting machines to polling locations and require the county as well as the Secretary of State’s office to promulgate the formulas used for placement in compliance with state and federal laws.
34. The Secretary of State shall make public 15 days before the election the assignment of voting machines to polling locations by county Boards of Elections in compliance with state and federal laws.
35. The Secretary of State shall have prior review and editorial approval of the language and candidates names listed on any county paper ballots, such as absentee and provisional ballots, prior to its release to the public.
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