A city councilman running for city auditor and a Republican Party official who previously pleaded guilty to theft in office have been charged with distributing fake sample ballots on Election Day.
Marion County Republican Party official John Matthews and Robert Landon, the GOP candidate for Marion city auditor broke the law by distributing campaign handouts designed to look like sample ballots,Under the law, a resident of Ohio could face up to six months in jail and be forced to pay up to a $1,000 fine for this offense.
Ohio law bans political parties and candidates from handing out sample ballots like this. They are supposed to be printed on colored paper to distinguish them from real ballots, but the ones distributed by Landon were on white paper.According to the Marion Law Director, Mark Russell, Landon admitted to passing out the sample ballots while Matthews produced them.
He was given one year of probation and ordered to pay restitution of $4,062 by Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Guy Reece.
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