Tex. Elec. Code § 127.202 · Subchapter H. ADDITIONAL COUNT OF ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM BALLOTS
COUNT OF ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM BALLOTS BY SECRETARY OF STATE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) To ensure the accuracy of the tabulation of electronic voting system results, the secretary of state or the secretary's designee may conduct a manual or automatic count of any portion of any number of ballots from any precinct in which the electronic voting system was used.
(b) The count may be conducted at any time during the period for preserving the applicable precinct election records.
(c) The general custodian of election records is entitled to be present at the count.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 484, Sec. 9, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
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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