Texas Election Code Title 6, Chapter 61 - Conduct Of Voting Generally

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 61.001 - Bystanders Excluded; Unlawful Presence Of Candidate
  (a) Except as permitted by this code, a person may not be in the polling place from the time the presiding judge arrives there on...
• Texas Section 61.002 - Opening Polling Place For Voting
  At the official time for opening the polls for voting, an election officer shall open the polling place entrance and admit the voters. Acts 1985,...
• Texas Section 61.003 - Electioneering And Loitering Near Polling Place
  (a) A person commits an offense if, during the voting period and within 100 feet of an outside door through which a voter may enter...
• Texas Section 61.004 - Unlawful Operation Of Sound Amplification Device Or Sound Truck
  (a) A person commits an offense if, during the voting period and within 1,000 feet of a building in which a polling place is located,...
• Texas Section 61.005 - Security Of Ballots, Ballot Boxes, And Envelopes
  (a) From the time a presiding judge receives the official ballots for an election until the precinct returns for that election have been certified, the...
• Texas Section 61.006 - Unlawfully Divulging Vote
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person was in a polling place for any purpose other than voting and knowingly communicates to another...
• Texas Section 61.007 - Unlawfully Revealing Information Before Polls Close
  (a) An election officer, watcher, or other person serving at a polling place in an official capacity commits an offense if, before the polls close...
• Texas Section 61.008 - Unlawfully Influencing Voter
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person indicates to a voter in a polling place by word, sign, or gesture how the person...
• Texas Section 61.009 - Instructing Voter On Casting Ballot
  On the request of a voter, an election officer shall instruct the voter on the proper procedure for casting a ballot. Acts 1985, 69th Leg.,...
• Texas Section 61.010 - Wearing Name Tag Or Badge In Polling Place
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person may not wear a badge, insignia, emblem, or other similar communicative device relating to a candidate,...
• Texas Section 61.011 - Removing Written Communications Found In Polling Place
  (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...
• Texas Section 61.012 - Access By Persons With Disabilities
  (a) Except as provided by Section 61.013, each polling place must provide at least one voting station that: (1) complies with: (A) Section 504 of...
• Texas Section 61.013 - Access By Persons With Disabilities: Elections Of Certain Political Subdivisions
  (a) For an election other than an election of a political subdivision that is held jointly with another election in which a federal office appears...

SUBCHAPTER B INTERPRETER

• Texas Section 61.014 - Use Of Certain Devices
  (a) A person may not use a wireless communication device within 100 feet of a voting station. (b) A person may not use any mechanical...
• Texas Section 61.031 - Use Of English Language
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), an election officer may not use a language other than English in performing an official duty in connection...
• Texas Section 61.032 - Interpreter Permitted
  If an election officer who attempts to communicate with a voter does not understand the language used by the voter, the voter may communicate through...
• Texas Section 61.033 - Eligibility To Serve As Interpreter
  To be eligible to serve as an interpreter, a person must be a registered voter of the county in which the voter needing the interpreter...
• Texas Section 61.034 - Translating Ballot
  If a voter cannot comprehend the language in which the ballot is printed, an interpreter may accompany the voter to the voting station for the...
• Texas Section 61.035 - Oath
  Before serving as an interpreter, the person selected as interpreter must take the following oath administered by an election officer: "I swear (or affirm) that,...
• Texas Section 61.036 - Translation Required
  (a) If an election officer and a voter communicate in a language other than English, any other election officer or watcher may request an English...

Last modified: September 28, 2016