Tex. Elec. Code § 127.132 · Subchapter E. PROCESSING RESULTS AT CENTRAL COUNTING STATION
DISPOSITION OF BALLOTS, RETURNS, AND OTHER RECORDS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The presiding judge of a central counting station shall distribute the voted ballots, election returns, and other election records from the counting station to the appropriate authorities.
(b) The voted ballots, election returns, poll list, tally lists for manually counted votes, and other election records shall be delivered to the authorities who receive the corresponding records from precinct polling places using regular paper ballots.
(c) The election records delivered to the general custodian of election records may be delivered in any container approved by the secretary of state for that purpose.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986. Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 54, Sec. 22, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Source of truth
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- 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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