Texas Election Code Title 7, Chapter 85 - Conduct Of Voting By Personal Appearance

SUBCHAPTER A TIME AND PLACE FOR VOTING; ELECTION OFFICERS

• Texas Section 85.001 - Early Voting Period
  (a) The period for early voting by personal appearance begins on the 17th day before election day and continues through the fourth day before election...
• Texas Section 85.002 - Main Early Voting Polling Place
  (a) Early voting by personal appearance for each election shall be conducted at the main early voting polling place. (b) In an election in which...
• Texas Section 85.003 - Voters Served By Main Polling Place
  Any person entitled to vote an early voting ballot by personal appearance may do so at the main early voting polling place. Acts 1985, 69th...
• Texas Section 85.004 - Public Notice Of Main Polling Place Location
  The election order and the election notice must state the location of the main early voting polling place. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec....
• Texas Section 85.005 - Regular Days And Hours For Voting
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), in an election in which a county clerk or city secretary is the early voting clerk under Section...
• Texas Section 85.006 - Voting On Saturday Or Sunday
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the authority ordering an election may order early voting by personal appearance at the main early voting polling...
• Texas Section 85.007 - Public Notice Of Time For Voting
  (a) The election order and the election notice must state: (1) the date that early voting will begin if under Section 85.001(d) the early voting...
• Texas Section 85.008 - Days And Hours For Voting: Election In Certain Cities
  (a) This section applies only to a city with a population of more than 450,000 in which all members of the governing body are elected...
• Texas Section 85.009 - Election Officers For General Election For State And County Officers
  (a) The county clerk shall select election officers for the main early voting polling place and any branch polling place from a list provided under...

SUBCHAPTER B POLLING PLACE PROCEDURE

• Texas Section 85.010 - Early Voting Polling Place For Certain Elections Held By Political Subdivisions
  (a) This section applies to an election held by a political subdivision, other than a county, on the November uniform election date in which the...
• Texas Section 85.031 - Accepting Voter
  (a) For each person entitled to vote an early voting ballot by personal appearance, the early voting clerk shall follow the procedure for accepting a...
• Texas Section 85.0311 - Early Voting Clerk To Sign Ballots
  (a) The early voting clerk's initials shall be placed on the back of each ballot to be used at the polling place. (b) The early...
• Texas Section 85.032 - Security Of Early Voting Ballot Box
  (a) The procedure for rotating two ballot boxes applicable to a precinct polling place does not apply to an early voting polling place. Once locked...
• Texas Section 85.033 - Security Of Voting Machine
  At the close of early voting each day, the early voting clerk shall secure each voting machine used for early voting in the manner prescribed...
• Texas Section 85.034 - Voter Unable To Enter Polling Place
  Early voting by personal appearance by a voter who is voting outside the early voting polling place shall be conducted pursuant to Section 64.009. Acts...
• Texas Section 85.035 - Assisting Voter
  A person voting an early voting ballot by personal appearance who is assisted in preparing the ballot by election officers under Subchapter B, Chapter 64,...
• Texas Section 85.036 - Electioneering
  (a) During the time an early voting polling place is open for the conduct of early voting, a person may not electioneer for or against...

SUBCHAPTER C BRANCH EARLY VOTING POLLING PLACE

• Texas Section 85.037 - Bystanders Excluded; Unlawful Presence Of Candidate
  Section 61.001 applies to an early voting polling place except that the period for which the conduct is proscribed is during the time the polling...
• Texas Section 85.061 - Permanent Branch Polling Place
  (a) In a countywide election in which the county clerk is the early voting clerk under Section 83.002, an early voting polling place shall be...
• Texas Section 85.062 - Temporary Branch Polling Place
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (d) or (e), one or more early voting polling places other than the main early voting polling place may...
• Texas Section 85.063 - Days And Hours For Voting: Permanent Branch
  Early voting by personal appearance at each permanent branch polling place shall be conducted on the same days and during the same hours as voting...
• Texas Section 85.064 - Days And Hours For Voting: Temporary Branch In Populous County
  (a) This section applies only to an election in which the territory served by the early voting clerk is situated in a county with a...
• Texas Section 85.065 - Days And Hours For Voting: Temporary Branch In Less Populous County
  (a) This section applies only to an election in which the territory served by the early voting clerk is situated in a county with a...
• Texas Section 85.066 - Voters Served By Branch Polling Place
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), any voter who is entitled to vote an early voting ballot by personal appearance may do so at...
• Texas Section 85.067 - Public Notice Of Branch Voting Schedule
  (a) The early voting clerk shall post for each election a schedule stating: (1) the location of each permanent and temporary branch polling place at...
• Texas Section 85.068 - Public Notice Of Additional Voting Time Ordered By Clerk
  (a) The early voting clerk shall post notice for each election stating any dates and the hours that voting on Saturday or Sunday will be...
• Texas Section 85.070 - Delivery Of Applications To Main Polling Place
  Each early voting ballot application submitted at a branch polling place shall be delivered by an election officer to the main polling place not later...
• Texas Section 85.071 - Delivery Of Ballots To Main Polling Place
  (a) During the period for early voting by personal appearance, the ballots voted at a branch polling place, other than those cast on a voting...
• Texas Section 85.072 - Branch Daily Register
  (a) Each day early voting is conducted at a branch polling place, an election officer in charge of the branch shall prepare a register listing...

Last modified: September 28, 2016