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Ohio Rev. Code § 3519.10 (2026)

Qualifications of signers - format of signing

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Effective:
March 17, 1987
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 524 - 116th General Assembly
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Each signer of any initiative or referendum petition must be a qualified elector of the state. He shall place on such petition after his name the date of signing and the location of his voting residence, including the street and number in which such voting residence is located, if in a municipal corporation, and the rural route or other post-office address and township in which such voting residence is located, if outside a municipal corporation. Each signer may also print his name so as to clearly identify his signature. Each part-petition which is filed shall contain signatures of electors of only one county. Petitions containing signatures of electors of more than one county shall not thereby be declared invalid. In case petitions containing signatures of electors of more than one county are filed, the secretary of state shall determine the county from which the majority of signatures came, and only signatures from such county shall be counted. Signatures from any other county shall be invalid.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1990–2018 · leading case: In re Protest Filed with the Franklin Cnty. Bd. of Elections, 551 N.E.2d 150 (Ohio 1990).
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In re Protest Filed with the Franklin Cnty. Bd. of Elections, 551 N.E.2d 150 (Ohio 1990). · cites it 8× “We consider next the specific requirement found in R.C. 3519.10 and tiie relevant cases cited by the parties.”
Ohio Renal Assn. v. Kidney Dialysis Patient Prot. Amendment Commt. (Slip Opinion), 2018 Ohio 3220 (Ohio 2018). “{¶ 3} To facilitate the review of the signatures obtained, R.C. 3519.10 provides that each filed part-petition "shall contain signatures of electors of only one county.”
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