Texas Election Code Title 3, Chapter 32 - Election Judges And Clerks

SUBCHAPTER A APPOINTMENT OF ELECTION JUDGES

• Texas Section 32.001 - Presiding Judge And Alternate For Each Election Precinct
  (a) A presiding election judge and an alternate presiding judge shall be appointed for each election precinct in which an election is held. (b) The...
• Texas Section 32.002 - Judges For County Election
  (a) The commissioners court shall appoint the election judges for each regular county election precinct: (1) at its July term in a county with a...
• Texas Section 32.003 - Judges For Consolidated County Election Precincts
  If election precincts are consolidated in a special election in which the regular county election precincts are required to be used, the commissioners court shall...
• Texas Section 32.004 - Judges For Other Elections Ordered By County Authority
  Except as otherwise provided by law, for an election ordered by a county authority in which use of the regular county election precincts is not...
• Texas Section 32.005 - Judges For Elections Of Other Political Subdivisions
  (a) The governing body of a political subdivision other than a county shall appoint the election judges for elections ordered by an authority of the...
• Texas Section 32.006 - Judges For Primary Elections
  (a) The county chair of a political party holding a primary election shall appoint for each primary, with the approval of the county executive committee,...
• Texas Section 32.007 - Emergency Appointment
  (a) If neither the presiding judge nor the alternate presiding judge can serve in an election and their inability to serve is discovered after the...
• Texas Section 32.008 - Order Of Appointment
  (a) The appointment of election judges must be made by written order. (b) The order of appointment need not be recorded in the minutes of...
• Texas Section 32.009 - Notice Of Appointment
  (a) Each presiding election judge and alternate presiding judge shall be given written notice of the appointment as provided by this section. (b) The authority...
• Texas Section 32.010 - Furnishing Precinct Boundary Information To Judges
  (a) If a presiding election judge has not been given a current description of the boundary of the election precinct for which the judge is...

SUBCHAPTER B APPOINTMENT OF ELECTION CLERKS

• Texas Section 32.011 - Conflicts With Other Law
  (a) A home-rule city charter supersedes this subchapter to the extent of any conflict. (b) A law outside this subchapter that prescribes a different appointing...
• Texas Section 32.031 - Presiding Judge To Appoint Clerks
  (a) The presiding judge for each election precinct shall appoint the election clerks to assist the judge in the conduct of an election at the...
• Texas Section 32.032 - Alternate Presiding Judge As Clerk
  In an election conducted by the regularly appointed presiding judge, the presiding judge shall appoint the alternate presiding judge as one of the clerks. Acts...
• Texas Section 32.033 - Number Of Clerks
  (a) The authority that appoints the election judges shall prescribe the maximum number of clerks that each presiding judge may appoint for each election. The...
• Texas Section 32.034 - Clerks For Elections For Federal, State, And County Offices
  (a) The clerks for the general election for state and county officers or for a special election to fill a vacancy in an office regularly...

SUBCHAPTER C ELIGIBILITY

• Texas Section 32.035 - Conflicts With City Charter
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a home-rule city charter supersedes this subchapter to the extent of any conflict. (b) A home-rule city charter...
• Texas Section 32.051 - General Eligibility Requirements
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), to be eligible to serve as a judge of an election precinct, a person must: (1) be a...
• Texas Section 32.0511 - Special Eligibility Requirements: Student Election Clerks
  (a) In this section: (1) "Educational institution" means: (A) a public secondary school; or (B) an accredited private or parochial secondary school. (2) "Student" means...
• Texas Section 32.052 - Ineligibility Of Public Officer
  (a) A person who holds an elective public office is ineligible to serve as an election judge or clerk in an election. (b) For purposes...
• Texas Section 32.053 - Ineligibility Of Candidate For Office
  (a) A person who is a candidate in an election for a contested public or party office is ineligible to serve, in an election to...
• Texas Section 32.054 - Ineligibility Of Employee Or Relative Of Candidate
  (a) A person is ineligible to serve as an election judge or clerk in an election if the person is employed by or related within...
• Texas Section 32.055 - Ineligibility Of Campaign Treasurer
  (a) A person is ineligible to serve as an election judge or clerk in an election if the person is the campaign treasurer of a...
• Texas Section 32.0551 - Ineligibility Of Campaign Manager
  (a) A person is ineligible to serve as an election judge or clerk in an election if the person is a campaign manager of a...
• Texas Section 32.0552 - Ineligibility Of Person Convicted Of Election Offense
  A person is ineligible to serve as an election judge or clerk in an election if the person has been finally convicted of an offense...

SUBCHAPTER D POWERS AND DUTIES

• Texas Section 32.056 - City Charter Requirements
  Eligibility requirements or grounds of ineligibility in addition to those prescribed by this subchapter may be prescribed by a home-rule city charter for election officers...
• Texas Section 32.071 - General Responsibility Of Presiding Judge
  The presiding judge is in charge of and responsible for the management and conduct of the election at the polling place of the election precinct...
• Texas Section 32.072 - Duties And Working Hours Of Clerks
  (a) The presiding judge shall designate the working hours of and assign the duties to be performed by the election clerks serving under the judge....
• Texas Section 32.073 - Absence Of Election Officers From Polling Place
  (a) The presiding judge and the clerks who are on duty at the time of any manual count or examination of ballots before the time...
• Texas Section 32.074 - Administration Of Oaths
  An election judge or clerk may administer any oath required or authorized to be made at a polling place. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211,...
• Texas Section 32.075 - Law Enforcement Duties And Powers
  (a) The presiding judge shall preserve order and prevent breaches of the peace and violations of this code in the polling place and in the...

SUBCHAPTER E COMPENSATION

• Texas Section 32.076 - Disclosure Of E-mail Address And Phone Number Restricted
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), an e-mail address or personal phone number of an election judge or clerk collected or maintained by the...
• Texas Section 32.091 - Compensation For Services At Polling Place
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), an election judge or clerk is entitled to compensation for services rendered at a precinct polling place at...
• Texas Section 32.092 - Compensation For Delivering Election Records And Supplies
  (a) The election judge or clerk who delivers the precinct election records, keys to ballot boxes or other election equipment, and unused election supplies after...
• Texas Section 32.093 - Authority Fixing Compensation
  The compensation of election judges and clerks shall be fixed by the following authority: (1) for an election ordered by the governor or a county...

SUBCHAPTER F TRAINING

• Texas Section 32.094 - Statement Of Compensation
  (a) After each election, each presiding judge serving in the election shall prepare and sign, in duplicate, a statement containing the following information: (1) the...
• Texas Section 32.111 - Training Standards For Election Judges
  (a) The secretary of state shall: (1) adopt standards of training in election law and procedure for presiding or alternate election judges; (2) develop materials...
• Texas Section 32.112 - Expense Of Training Judges
  The governing body of a political subdivision may appropriate funds to: (1) compensate its election judges, early voting clerk, and deputy early voting clerks in...
• Texas Section 32.113 - Training Programs
  (a) The governing body of a political subdivision other than a county may, and the county executive committee of a political party shall, provide training...
• Texas Section 32.114 - Public County Training Program
  (a) The county clerk shall provide one or more sessions of training using the standardized training program and materials developed and provided by the secretary...
• Texas Section 32.115 - Secretary Of State To Assist In Training
  On request of a county executive committee or a county clerk, as appropriate, the secretary of state shall schedule and provide assistance for the training...

Last modified: September 28, 2016