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Texas Election Code § 214.002

Counting Procedure

Counting Procedures · Manually Counted Ballots

(a) One member of a counting team shall read the ballots, and the other two members shall tally the votes as the ballots are read.

(b) The count shall be made, and the correctness of the tally lists shall be certified, in the same manner as an original count of regular paper ballots, except that only two tally lists are prepared.

Official text of the Texas Election Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 728, Sec. 76, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.

Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 1107 (H.B. 2309), Sec. 2.16, eff. January 1, 2006.

Sections that refer to this one

§ 214.050