State ex rel. Automatic Registering Machine Co. v. Green

Ohio Supreme Court June 19, 1929

State ex rel. Automatic Registering Machine Co. v. Green, 7 Ohio Law. Abs. 381 (Ohio 1929)

Allen, Day, Jones, Kinkade, Marshall, Matthias, Proposition, Robinson, Syllabus

Opinion of the Court

Syllabus by

ALLEN, J.

ELECTIONS

(240 V2) A constitutional requirement that all elections be by ballot does not invalidate an otherwise legal enactment providing for the use of voting machines in elections. The term “ballot” designates a method of conducting elections which will insure secrecy, as distinguished., from open or viva-voce voting. (State, ex rel. Karlinger, v. Board of Deputy State Supervisors of Elections, 80 Ohio St., 471, overruled).

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS

(360 C2) A charter city is not authorized, under Section 3 of Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution to prescribe a method of conducting state and county elections.

Marshall, CJ, Kinkade, Matthias and Day, JJ, concur. Robinson and Jones, JJ, concur in proposition 2 of the syllabus and in .the judgment.

Reference

Full Case Name: STATE ex AUTOMATIC REGISTERING MACHINE CO v. GREEN, Director of Finance etc.
Status: Published