Tex. Elec. Code § 61.011 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
REMOVING WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS FOUND IN POLLING PLACE.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An election officer shall periodically check each voting station and other areas of the polling place for sample ballots or other written communications used by voters that were left or discarded in the polling place.
(b) An election officer shall remove from the sight of the voters any written communication found under Subsection (a).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 112, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.61.htm
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- sha256 429d513890a225fc0a5229e393ab604c1296d70447c932d12950cb5aa5be0399
- 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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