Tex. Elec. Code § 51.033 · Subchapter B. ELECTION EQUIPMENT
NUMBER AND USE OF BALLOT BOXES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Four ballot boxes shall be used at each polling place in an election and shall be marked as follows:
(1) "Ballot Box No. 1 for Election Precinct No. ________";
(2) "Ballot Box No. 2 for Election Precinct No. ________";
(3) "Ballot Box No. 3 for Election Precinct No. ________"; and
(4) "Ballot Box No. 4 for Election Precinct No. ________".
(b) If an election precinct is designated by name instead of number, the name of the precinct shall be marked on the box.
(c) Ballot boxes no. 1 and no. 2 are used for the deposit of voters' marked ballots.
(d) Ballot box no. 3 is used for delivering the voted ballots to their custodian after they are counted and for storing the voted ballots during the preservation period.
(e) Ballot box no. 4 is used for delivering defectively printed, spoiled, and unused ballots to their custodian after the election.
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.51.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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