Tex. Elec. Code § 127.009 · Subchapter A. ESTABLISHMENT AND ORGANIZATION OF CENTRAL COUNTING STATION
ELECTRONIC DEVICES IN CENTRAL COUNTING STATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A counting station manager and the presiding judge of the counting station shall develop a protocol under which any electronic device inside a central counting station that is necessary to count votes is equipped with software that tracks all input and activity on the electronic device.
(b) The counting station manager and the presiding judge of the counting station shall ensure that the input and activity tracked by the software is delivered to the secretary of state not later than the fifth day after vote counting is complete.
(c) This section applies only to a central counting station located in a county with a population of 250,000 or more.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 1), Sec. 3.17, eff. December 2, 2021.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.127.htm
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- 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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