May a potential candidate for a local school board circulate a petition for a proposed issue at the same time the individual is circulating his or her own petition for school board candidate?
o Yes. The Revised Code does not prohibit a potential candidate from circulating both a petition for a proposed issue at the same time the individual is circulating his or her own petition for school board candidate. o The candidate petition and the proposed issue petition must be separate petitions enabling voters to support or not support each petition separately. Thus, each petition shall be substantially in the form prescribed by their respective Revised Code sections. If this were not the case, then the circulator would be in violation of Ohio election law. For example, R.C. 3519.01(A) provides that “only one proposal of law or constitutional amendment to be proposed by initiative petition shall be contained in an initiative petition to enable the voters to vote on that proposal separately. A petition shall include the text of any existing statute or constitutional provision that would be amended or repealed if the proposed law or constitutional amendment is adopted.” o As you kno
