Tex. Const. art. VI, § 4 · Article 6. SUFFRAGE
ELECTIONS BY BALLOT; PURITY OF ELECTIONS; REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
In all elections by the people, the vote shall be by ballot, and the Legislature shall provide for the numbering of tickets and make such other regulations as may be necessary to detect and punish fraud and preserve the purity of the ballot box; and the Legislature shall provide by law for the registration of all voters.
Notes and commentary — not constitutional text
History
(Feb. 15, 1876. Amended Aug. 11, 1891, and Nov. 8, 1966.)
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the amendments approved by voters in November 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CN/htm/CN.6.htm
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- sha256 0d18d193b3ec3459ff5ab74c427271ebec3a8bbe1010bdd78059faba349715e9
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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