Tex. Elec. Code § 124.005 · Subchapter A. VOTING SYSTEM BALLOT GENERALLY
SPECIMEN BALLOT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The secretary of state may prescribe standards regarding the form, content, preparation, availability, and use of specimen ballots in elections using voting systems. The standards are not required to be consistent with those prescribed by this code for elections using regular paper ballots.
(b) The secretary of state may provide, with respect to elections in which voting systems are used:
(1) alternatives to the use of specimen ballots; or
(2) that specimen ballots are not required.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.124.htm
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- 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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