OH HB309

Eliminates the requirement that absent voter's ballots received within ten days after an election must contain a postmark to be valid.

Allows absent voter's ballots received via United States postal service after polls close on election day through the tenth day thereafter to be counted on the eleventh day.

Excludes ballots from counting if the return envelope is legibly postmarked on or after the day of the election.

Excludes ballots from counting if the identification envelope statement of voter is signed on or after the day of the election.

Ballots received more than ten days after the election shall not be counted and must be kept in sealed identification envelopes until destruction per section 3505.31 of the Revised Code.