Texas Election Code Title 6, Chapter 66 - Disposition Of Records And Supplies After Election

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 66.001 - General Custodian Of Election Records
  The general custodian of election records is: (1) the county clerk of each county wholly or partly situated in the territory covered by the election,...
• Texas Section 66.002 - Precinct Election Records
  In this chapter, "precinct election records" means the precinct election returns, voted ballots, and other records of an election that are assembled and distributed under...

SUBCHAPTER B ASSEMBLING RECORDS FOR DISTRIBUTION

• Texas Section 66.003 - Envelopes For Distribution Of Records
  (a) Four envelopes shall be furnished to each polling place for use in assembling and distributing the precinct election records. (b) The envelopes shall be...
• Texas Section 66.021 - Assembling Election Records
  (a) On completing the election returns for the precinct, the presiding judge shall assemble the precinct election records and place them in the appropriate envelopes...
• Texas Section 66.022 - Contents Of Envelope No
  Envelope no. 1 must contain: (1) the original of the election returns for the precinct; and (2) a tally list. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch....
• Texas Section 66.023 - Contents Of Envelope No
  Envelope no. 2 must contain: (1) a copy of the precinct returns; (2) a tally list; (3) the original of the poll list; (4) the...
• Texas Section 66.024 - Contents Of Envelope No
  Envelope no. 3 must contain: (1) a copy of the precinct returns; (2) a copy of the poll list; and (3) a copy of the...
• Texas Section 66.0241 - Contents Of Envelope No
  Envelope no. 4 must contain: (1) the precinct list of registered voters; (2) the registration correction list; (3) any statements of residence executed under Section...
• Texas Section 66.025 - Contents Of Ballot Box No
  (a) Ballot box no. 3 must contain: (1) the voted ballots; (2) a copy of the precinct returns; (3) a tally list; and (4) a...

SUBCHAPTER C DISPOSITION OF RECORDS AND SUPPLIES

• Texas Section 66.026 - Contents Of Ballot Box No
  Ballot box no. 4 must contain: (1) the original of the ballot register; (2) the register of spoiled ballots; (3) any spoiled ballots; (4) any...
• Texas Section 66.051 - Distribution Of Election Records
  (a) The presiding judge shall deliver envelope no. 1 in person to the presiding officer of the local canvassing authority. If the presiding officer of...
• Texas Section 66.052 - Delivery By Election Clerk
  A delivery of election records or supplies that is to be performed by the presiding judge may be performed by an election clerk designated by...
• Texas Section 66.053 - Time For Delivering Election Records
  (a) The precinct election records shall be delivered to the appropriate authorities immediately after the precinct returns are completed. (b) If the presiding judge determines...
• Texas Section 66.054 - Failure To Deliver Election Returns And Voted Ballots
  (a) An election officer responsible for delivering precinct election returns or voted ballots commits an offense if the officer: (1) fails to make the delivery...
• Texas Section 66.055 - Judicial Impoundment Of Election Records
  (a) If the precinct election records are not delivered by the deadline prescribed by Section 66.053(c), on application by a member of the canvassing authority,...
• Texas Section 66.056 - Unofficial Tabulation Of Precinct Results
  (a) As the general custodian of election records receives the precinct election records from each polling place, the custodian shall: (1) open the envelopes and...
• Texas Section 66.057 - Regulating Public Inspection Of Certain Election Records
  (a) The election returns for a particular precinct that are delivered to the general custodian of election records do not become public information until the...
• Texas Section 66.058 - Preservation Of Precinct Election Records
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this code, the precinct election records shall be preserved by the authority to whom they are distributed: (1) in...
• Texas Section 66.059 - Retrieving Erroneously Placed Election Records
  (a) On written application by the presiding officer of the local canvassing authority or the presiding judge of the election precinct, a district judge of...
• Texas Section 66.060 - Delivery And Preservation Of Key To Ballot Box No
  (a) The presiding judge shall deliver the key to ballot box no. 3 in person to the following authority: (1) the sheriff, for an election...
• Texas Section 66.061 - Custody Of List Of Registered Voters To Be Reused In Subsequent Election
  The custodian of a precinct list of registered voters that is to be reused in a subsequent election occurring during the preservation period shall return...
• Texas Section 66.062 - Returning Equipment And Supplies
  (a) At the same time the precinct election records are delivered, the unused election supplies shall be delivered to the authority responsible for distributing the...

Last modified: September 28, 2016