Texas Election Code Title 7, Chapter 86 - Conduct Of Voting By Mail

• Texas Section 86.001 - Reviewing Application And Providing Ballot
  (a) The early voting clerk shall review each application for a ballot to be voted by mail. (b) If the applicant is entitled to vote...
• Texas Section 86.0015 - Annual Ballots By Mail
  (a) This section applies only to an application for a ballot to be voted by mail that: (1) indicates the ground of eligibility is age...
• Texas Section 86.002 - Additional Balloting Materials
  (a) The early voting clerk shall provide an official ballot envelope and carrier envelope with each ballot provided to a voter. If the voter's name...
• Texas Section 86.003 - Method Of Providing Ballot To Voter: Required Address
  (a) The balloting materials for voting by mail shall be provided to the voter by mail. A ballot provided by any other method may not...
• Texas Section 86.004 - Time For Providing Ballot To Voter
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the balloting materials for voting by mail shall be mailed to a voter entitled to vote by mail...
• Texas Section 86.005 - Marking And Sealing Ballot
  (a) A voter must mark a ballot voted by mail in accordance with the instructions on the ballot envelope. (b) A voter may mark the...
• Texas Section 86.0051 - Carrier Envelope Action By Person Other Than Voter; Offenses
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person acts as a witness for a voter in signing the certificate on the carrier envelope and...
• Texas Section 86.0052 - Compensation For Carrier Envelope Action Prohibited
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person: (1) compensates another person for depositing the carrier envelope in the mail or with a common...
• Texas Section 86.006 - Method Of Returning Marked Ballot
  (a) A marked ballot voted under this chapter must be returned to the early voting clerk in the official carrier envelope. The carrier envelope may...
• Texas Section 86.007 - Deadline For Returning Marked Ballot
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), a marked ballot voted by mail must arrive at the address on the carrier envelope before the time...
• Texas Section 86.008 - Defective Application
  (a) If on reviewing an application for a ballot to be voted by mail that was received on or before the 18th day before election...
• Texas Section 86.009 - Providing Corrected Ballot To Voter
  (a) If, after a ballot to be voted by mail is provided to a voter, the official ballot is changed in a way that affects...
• Texas Section 86.010 - Assisting Voter
  (a) A voter casting a ballot by mail who would be eligible under Section 64.031 to receive assistance at a polling place may select a...
• Texas Section 86.0105 - Compensation For Assisting Voters Prohibited
  (a) A person commits an offense if the person: (1) compensates another person for assisting voters as provided by Section 86.010, as part of any...
• Texas Section 86.011 - Action By Clerk On Return Of Ballot
  (a) The early voting clerk shall determine whether the return of a voter's official carrier envelope for a ballot voted by mail is timely. (b)...
• Texas Section 86.012 - Official Ballot Envelope
  (a) "Ballot Envelope" must be printed on the face of each officially prescribed ballot envelope for a ballot to be voted by mail. (b) The...
• Texas Section 86.013 - Official Carrier Envelope
  (a) "Carrier Envelope for Early Voting Ballot," the name and official title of the early voting clerk as addressee, and the clerk's official mailing address...
• Texas Section 86.014 - Public Inspection Of Early Voting Records
  (a) A copy of an application for a ballot to be voted by mail is not available for public inspection, except to the voter seeking...

Last modified: September 28, 2016