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Texas Election Code § 243.002

Parties

Contest for Presidential Electors

(a) An election of presidential electors may be contested only by:

(1) a presidential candidate whose name appeared on the ballot for the election in this state or who had qualified as a write-in candidate in this state;

(2) any one or more of the presidential elector candidates who correspond to a presidential candidate specified by Subdivision (1), if the presidential candidate gives express approval; or

(3) a presidential candidate specified by Subdivision (1) and one or more corresponding presidential elector candidates acting jointly.

(b) The contestees are the presidential elector candidates officially determined to be elected and the presidential candidate to whom they correspond.

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.