Tex. Elec. Code § 243.002 · Chapter 243. CONTEST FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
PARTIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An election of presidential electors may be contested only by:
(1) a presidential candidate whose name appeared on the ballot for the election in this state or who had qualified as a write-in candidate in this state;
(2) any one or more of the presidential elector candidates who correspond to a presidential candidate specified by Subdivision (1), if the presidential candidate gives express approval; or
(3) a presidential candidate specified by Subdivision (1) and one or more corresponding presidential elector candidates acting jointly.
(b) The contestees are the presidential elector candidates officially determined to be elected and the presidential candidate to whom they correspond.
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.243.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 69887038b874e605151b80c12c5a41d3766f50e081361040325967b13dec1af5
- 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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