Tex. Elec. Code § 1.017 · Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
INELIGIBILITY NO DEFENSE TO PROSECUTION.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
It is no defense to prosecution under this code that a person who receives an official ballot is ineligible to vote in the election for which the ballot is received.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 393, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.1.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 64397451e0427d78eaf92ab3a4b44a9983e878758acdbf2fe5ac8a222a9f3a37
- 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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