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(a) Any candidate for elective office in the City shall be nominated by petition which shall be filed with the election authorities at the time required under the general laws for municipalities that do not have primary elections. Such petition shall state the name and place of residence of each person whose name is presented for a place upon the ballot and the name of the office for which he is a candidate; it shall be signed by not less than twenty-five (25) qualified electors of the municipal corporation, except that the nominating petition of a candidate for election to Council to represent a ward of the City (as distinguished from at-large) need have the signatures of not less than twenty (20) qualified electors of the ward in which the candidate is resident and in which he seeks election.
(b) Such petition shall contain a provision that each signer thereto shall add to his signature his place of residence, his ward and precinct and the date of signing. Each subscriber may sign only one nominating petition for each place to be filled. All signatures shall be made with ink or indelible pencil. The affidavit of the circulator as required by the general law shall be attached to the petition and filed with the election authorities prescribed by the general law at the time so prescribed.
(c) Any person whose name has been submitted as a candidate by such petition shall file his acceptance of such candidacy with the election authorities not less than fifty-five days previous to such election; otherwise, his name shall not appear upon the ballot, or if it does appear on the ballot the votes cast for such candidate shall not be counted.
The regular municipal elections for the offices of Mayor and members of Council, and for issues to be presented to the voters, shall be held on the dates and at the times fixed by the election laws of Ohio for general statutory plan cities, except that all officers shall be elected to terms of office as provided in this Charter. The procedure established by the election laws of Ohio for the conduct of elections in general statutory plan cities shall be followed, except as modified by this Charter or by ordinance or resolution.
(a) The candidates at the regular municipal election, equal in number to the places to be filled in each office, who receive the highest number of votes shall be declared elected. If it cannot be determined which of two or more candidates shall be declared elected, by reason of their having recieved the same number of votes, the election authorities shall determine by lot which of the candidates shall be declared elected.
(b) No question submitted to the electors under this Charter shall be passed or carried unless a majority of the electors voting on the question shall vote in favor thereof, and if any State law governing such election shall require more than a majority vote, the percentage of vote required to pass the measure under the State law shall govern in the absence of an ordinance of Council otherwise providing. The form of ballot to be used on all questions submitted to the electors shall be prescribed by Council at the time the question is certified to the proper election officials for the calling of the election.
All elections shall be conducted and the results canvassed and certified by the election authorities prescribed by general election laws, and all other matters relating to elections not herein or by ordinance or resolution of Council specifically provided for shall be determined by the general election laws of the State.