Tex. Elec. Code § 64.007 · Subchapter A. VOTING GENERALLY
SPOILED BALLOT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If a voter mismarks, damages, or otherwise spoils the ballot in the process of voting, the voter is entitled to receive a new ballot by returning the spoiled ballot to an election officer.
(b) A voter is not entitled to receive more than three ballots.
(c) An election officer shall maintain a register of spoiled ballots at the polling place. An election officer shall enter on the register the name of each voter who returns a spoiled ballot and the spoiled ballot's number. The secretary of state shall create and promulgate a form to be used for this purpose.
(d) After making the appropriate entry on the register, the election officer shall deposit the spoiled ballot in ballot box no. 4.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.
Amended by:
Acts 2021, 87th Leg., 2nd C.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 1), Sec. 3.07, eff. December 2, 2021.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.64.htm
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- sha256 23f262bdff6c2dff978bdca50a7aedff1645648f928e4fe9518e664fbf458af4
- 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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