Tex. Elec. Code § 127.069 · Subchapter C. SEALED BALLOT BOXES
SORTING BALLOTS.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) After opening a sealed ballot box, the presiding judge of the central counting station shall sort the damaged ballots, the ballots containing write-in votes, and any other ballots requiring special handling and place them in the appropriate envelopes or other containers provided for that purpose.
(b) After the ballots are sorted, the presiding judge shall deliver them to the manager of the central counting station.
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.127.htm
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- sha256 78da02511bb673262a19d87e02291bbd9238e61633b21921968fadab14118f3e
- 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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