Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) As used in this rule, "eligible campaign
committee" means either of the following:
(1)
The campaign committee of a candidate for statewide office that makes
expenditures of less than twenty-five thousand dollars during a reporting
period under division (A) of section
3517.10
of the Revised Code;
(2) The
campaign committee of a candidate for the office of member of the general
assembly or for the office of judge of a court of appeals that would otherwise
be required to file campaign finance statements by electronic means of
transmission under division (E) of
section
3517.106
of the Revised Code.
(B)
(1)
An eligible campaign committee may file a campaign
finance statement for a reporting period under division (A) of section
3517.10
of the Revised Code by paper rather than by electronic means of transmission if
the candidate of the eligible campaign committee files with the secretary of
state a notice indicating that the candidate's campaign committee intends to
file by paper and stating that filing the statement by electronic means of
transmission would constitute a hardship for the candidate or for the eligible
campaign committee.
(2)
The campaign finance statement is accompanied by a fee
not to exceed the actual data entry and data verification costs incurred by the
secretary of state to convert the information filed on paper to electronic
format. The fee shall be determined by the secretary of state, which results in
a fee that does not exceed the secretary's actual costs.
(C) An eligible campaign committee that files
a campaign finance statement on paper pursuant to division
(J) of
section
3517.106
of the Revised Code shall review the contribution and other information made
available online by the secretary of state with respect to that paper filing
and shall notify the secretary of state of any errors with respect to that
filing that appear in the data made available on the secretary of state's web
site.
(D) Campaign finance
statements filed on paper pursuant to division (J) of section
3517.106
of the Revised Code shall be filed by the filing deadlines required under
division (A) of section
3517.10
of the Revised Code.
(E) Any
campaign committee that submits paper campaign finance statements, pursuant to
division (J) of section
3517.106
of the Revised Code, shall comply with the following provisions, as applicable.
(1) The candidate of an eligible campaign
committee that intends to file a paper statement pursuant to division
(J) of
section
3517.106
of the Revised Code shall file a notice of hardship for each campaign finance
statement that the committee intends to file by paper. A notice of hardship
must be filed prior to the filing of the campaign finance statement on paper in
order for a campaign committee to file on paper pursuant to division
(J) of
section
3517.106
of the Revised Code.
(2) A campaign
finance statement filed on paper pursuant to division (J) of section
3517.106
of the Revised Code is not timely filed if, by the filing deadline,
the statement is not filed at the office of the
secretary of state.
(3) Electronic filing notices of hardship
shall be signed under penalty of election falsification.
