Tex. Elec. Code § 62.009 · Chapter 62. PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS
DISARRANGING BALLOTS FOR VOTERS' SELECTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) As needed for voting, an election officer shall disarrange a supply of the ballots so that they are in random numerical order.
(b) The disarranged ballots shall be placed face down on a table in a manner preventing an election officer or other person from ascertaining the number of a ballot selected by a voter.
(c) The provisional ballots shall be placed separately from the regular ballots.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1078, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1315, Sec. 22, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.62.htm
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- 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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