These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Ohio Election HQ website and related content, features, forms, polls, and services. By using the site, you agree to these Terms.

If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the site.

1. About the Site

Ohio Election HQ is an independent election information platform that provides content related to Ohio elections, races, polling, public opinion, and related topics.

Ohio Election HQ is not an official government agency, election board, board of elections, campaign committee, or public authority.

All content is provided for general informational purposes only.

2. No Official Government or Campaign Relationship

Use of this site does not create any official relationship between you and:

The State of Ohio

Any county board of elections

Any government office

Any campaign

Any candidate

Any political party

Any public authority

For official election information, filing deadlines, voter registration, ballot access, polling locations, and election administration matters, users should consult official authorities and sources.

3. Informational Use Only

The content on Ohio Election HQ is intended for informational and editorial purposes only. While we may provide information about candidates, races, public opinion, or election-related matters, we do not guarantee completeness, accuracy, timeliness, or suitability for any particular purpose.

You are responsible for independently verifying information before relying on it.

4. No Guarantee of Accuracy or Availability

We do not warrant that:

The site will always be available

The site will be uninterrupted or error-free

Any content is complete, accurate, or current

Any poll, data point, summary, or race information reflects official results or final outcomes

Polling and election-related content may change quickly, may become outdated, and may contain omissions, delays, or errors.

5. Election and Polling Disclaimer

Any polling, survey, ranking, estimate, summary, or election-related analysis presented on the site is for informational and editorial purposes only and should not be interpreted as:

An official election result;

A certified result;

A guaranteed outcome;

Legal advice;

Campaign advice; or

Official government information.

Polls and surveys may be subject to screening, validation, fraud detection, duplicate filtering, eligibility review, weighting, exclusion rules, methodology changes, delayed publication, correction, revision, suspension, or removal at any time, with or without notice.

Ohio Election HQ does not guarantee that every submitted response will be counted, displayed, or included in any published result. We reserve the right to determine, in our sole discretion, whether any response is valid, unique, eligible, reliable, or appropriate for inclusion.

Published results may exclude responses that appear duplicate, coordinated, fraudulent, automated, manipulated, inauthentic, incomplete, unverifiable, inconsistent with site rules, or otherwise unreliable.

6. Permitted Use

You may use the site for lawful, personal, informational, and non-commercial purposes unless otherwise authorized in writing.

You agree not to use the site to:

Violate any law or regulation

Submit false, misleading, or fraudulent information

Impersonate another person or entity

Interfere with site operations or security

Distribute malware, spam, or harmful code

Scrape, copy, harvest, or extract site content at scale without authorization

Attempt unauthorized access to private areas, administrative tools, data, or systems

Post or submit unlawful, defamatory, obscene, abusive, threatening, hateful, or infringing content

Submit duplicate poll or survey responses;

Use false, fabricated, disposable, spoofed, or impersonated information;

Manipulate, skew, distort, interfere with, or attempt to influence poll or survey results through repeated, coordinated, deceptive, or automated activity;

Evade rate limits, fraud checks, CAPTCHA, validation rules, or other security or integrity controls;

Use bots, scripts, macros, automation tools, proxy services, VPNs, or other methods to generate or mask submissions;

Encourage, direct, or coordinate others to submit responses for the purpose of artificially affecting results;

Access or attempt to access any administrative, unpublished, or non-public site function, endpoint, workflow, webhook, API, or system without authorization.

6A. Poll Integrity; Prohibited Manipulation

You may not use the site, any form, poll, survey, script, workflow, API, webhook, or related feature to distort, interfere with, or manipulate poll results, survey results, rankings, summaries, analytics, or other site outputs. Without limitation, you agree not to, and not to encourage, assist, coordinate with, or direct any other person or entity to:

Submit multiple responses for the same poll, survey, race, or question beyond what is expressly permitted by the site;

Submit responses using false, misleading, fabricated, disposable, spoofed, or impersonated identities, names, phone numbers, email addresses, addresses, ZIP codes, devices, browsers, sessions, accounts, or other identifiers;

Use bots, scripts, automation tools, click farms, proxy services, VPNs, rotating IP tools, emulators, device spoofing, or other technical means to evade submission limits, identity checks, fraud controls, validation rules, or security measures;

Coordinate, solicit, organize, direct, or incentivize others to submit responses for the purpose of artificially affecting, skewing, biasing, or distorting results;

Misrepresent eligibility, location, residency, identity, voter status, support level, or any other information submitted through the site;

Attempt to probe, test, circumvent, reverse engineer, overload, or interfere with any poll methodology, validation system, security control, scoring process, workflow, webhook, API, database, analytics tool, or related infrastructure;

access, attempt to access, or use any non-public page, endpoint, administrative feature, or system without authorization.

Ohio Election HQ may, in its sole discretion, investigate suspicious activity and determine whether any response, submission, account, device, session, identifier, household, IP address, or pattern of activity is invalid, duplicated, coordinated, fraudulent, automated, deceptive, abusive, or otherwise inconsistent with poll integrity.

We may, with or without notice:

Reject, quarantine, delay, exclude, reweight, or remove any submission or group of submissions;

Withhold, revise, restate, suspend, or remove published results, sample sizes, percentages, rankings, summaries, or related outputs;

Restrict, suspend, or ban access to the site or any feature;

Preserve and use relevant logs, metadata, technical signals, and submission history for security, enforcement, editorial, operational, analytical, or legal purposes; and

Refer suspected misconduct to service providers, platform partners, legal counsel, or law enforcement where appropriate.

A submission to the site does not create any right to inclusion in any published result, sample, tally, analysis, or dataset.

7. User Submissions

If you submit a message, correction, form response, poll response, survey response, suggestion, media inquiry, tip, or other content, you represent and warrant that:

The information is truthful and accurate to the best of your knowledge;

The information is not false, fabricated, misleading, spoofed, or impersonated;

You are not submitting on behalf of another person without authority;

You are not submitting duplicate, coordinated, automated, or manipulative responses;

You have the right to submit the content; and

The submission does not violate any law, regulation, contract, or third-party right.

We may use technical, behavioral, statistical, and manual review processes to validate submissions and detect abuse. We are not obligated to accept, count, publish, retain, or respond to any submission, and we may preserve submission records, metadata, device or browser information, IP-related information, timestamps, and related technical data for integrity, security, operational, analytical, editorial, and legal purposes, subject to applicable law and our Privacy Policy.

8. Intellectual Property

All site design, branding, text, graphics, layout, logos, and original content on Ohio Election HQ, excluding third-party content and public-source material where applicable, are owned by or licensed to Ohio Election HQ and protected by applicable law.

You may not reproduce, republish, distribute, modify, create derivative works from, or commercially exploit site content without prior written permission, except as allowed by law.

9. Third-Party Content and Links

The site may reference or link to third-party content, websites, social platforms, campaign pages, government resources, media outlets, or public records. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party content, services, or websites.

A link to a third party does not necessarily imply endorsement.

10. Communications

If you provide your contact information, you agree that we may contact you regarding your submission, account of interest, site-related matters, informational updates, and, where permitted, marketing communications by email or text.

Your consent to receive communications is subject to applicable law and your ability to opt out where required.

11. Privacy

Your use of the site is also subject to our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference.

12. Disclaimer of Warranties

The site and all content, features, and services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without warranties of any kind, express or implied, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

We disclaim, to the fullest extent permitted by law, all warranties including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and availability.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ohio Election HQ and its owners, operators, affiliates, contractors, service providers, and representatives shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, revenue, profits, goodwill, or business opportunities arising from or related to your use of the site.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ohio Election HQ shall have no liability for any decision to reject, exclude, remove, delay, revise, suspend, or not publish any submission, response, result, sample, tally, percentage, ranking, summary, or related content based on suspected fraud, duplication, manipulation, abuse, or integrity concerns.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, your sole remedy for dissatisfaction with the site is to stop using it.

14. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Ohio Election HQ and its owners, operators, affiliates, contractors, service providers, and representatives from and against claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses arising out of or related to:

Your use of the site

Your violation of these Terms

Your submission of content or information

Your violation of any law or third-party rights

This indemnification includes claims, disputes, investigations, costs, and expenses arising out of or related to fraudulent submissions, poll or survey manipulation, impersonation, automated activity, unauthorized access attempts, interference with site operations, or efforts to distort site data, results, analytics, or content.

15. Modifications to the Site or Terms

We may modify, suspend, discontinue, or restrict access to any part of the site at any time, with or without notice.

We may also update these Terms from time to time. Updated Terms become effective when posted unless otherwise stated. Your continued use of the site after updated Terms are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.

16. Restriction, Suspension, and Termination

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion and with or without notice, to restrict, suspend, terminate, block, or investigate access to the site or any feature of the site, including forms, polls, surveys, APIs, webhooks, and related services, for any reason, including suspected or actual violation of these Terms, suspected fraud or manipulation, duplicate or deceptive submissions, abusive conduct, security concerns, or activity that may compromise the integrity of the site or its content.

17. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Ohio, without regard to conflict of law principles.

18. Disputes

Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of the site shall be brought in the appropriate state or federal courts located in Ohio, and you consent to the jurisdiction and venue of those courts.

19. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be unlawful, invalid, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

20. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms, contact:

[email protected]

Ohio Election HQ