Texas Election Code Title 7, Chapter 87 - Processing Early Voting Results

SUBCHAPTER A EARLY VOTING BALLOT BOARD

• Texas Section 87.001 - Board Created; Jurisdiction
  An early voting ballot board shall be created in each election to process early voting results from the territory served by the early voting clerk....
• Texas Section 87.002 - Composition Of Board
  (a) The early voting ballot board consists of a presiding judge and at least two other members. (b) Except as provided by Subsection (d), the...
• Texas Section 87.003 - Eligibility For Board Membership
  To be eligible for appointment to the early voting ballot board, a person must meet the requirements for eligibility for service as a presiding election...
• Texas Section 87.004 - Board Composed Of Precinct Election Officers
  In an election other than the general election for state and county officers or a primary election, the authority ordering the election may direct by...

SUBCHAPTER B DELIVERING MATERIALS TO BOARD

• Texas Section 87.005 - Compensation Of Members
  (a) Members of the early voting ballot board are entitled to the same compensation as presiding election judges, except as provided by Subsection (b). (b)...
• Texas Section 87.021 - Ballots And Other Materials Delivered To Board
  The early voting clerk shall deliver to the early voting ballot board: (1) in an election in which regular paper ballots are used for early...
• Texas Section 87.0211 - Electronic Delivery Of Materials Recorded Electronically
  If ballot materials and ballot applications are recorded electronically as provided by Section 87.126, the early voting clerk may deliver those materials to the early...
• Texas Section 87.022 - Time Of Delivery: General Rule
  Except as provided by Section 87.0221, 87.0222, 87.023, or 87.024, the materials shall be delivered to the early voting ballot board under this subchapter during...
• Texas Section 87.0221 - Time Of Delivery: Paper Ballots
  (a) In an election in which regular paper ballots are used for early voting by personal appearance or by mail, the materials may be delivered...
• Texas Section 87.0222 - Time Of Delivery: Ballots Voted By Mail
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 87.024, in an election conducted by an authority of a county with a population of 100,000 or more or conducted jointly with...
• Texas Section 87.0223 - Time Of Delivery: Ballots Sent Out By Regular Mail And E-mail
  (a) If the early voting clerk has provided a voter a ballot to be voted by mail by both regular mail and e-mail under Subchapter...
• Texas Section 87.023 - Time Of Delivery: Automatically Counted Ballots
  (a) In an election in which early voting ballots are to be counted by automatic tabulating equipment at a central counting station, the ballots voted...
• Texas Section 87.024 - Time Of Delivery: Voting Machine Election
  (a) In an election in which early voting votes by personal appearance are cast on voting machines, the jacket envelopes containing the early voting ballots...
• Texas Section 87.0241 - Processing Ballots Before Polls Open
  (a) The early voting ballot board may determine whether to accept early voting ballots voted by mail in accordance with Section 87.041 at any time...
• Texas Section 87.025 - Delivering Second Ballot Box Key To Board
  On request of the presiding officer of the early voting ballot board, the custodian of the key to the second lock on the early voting...
• Texas Section 87.026 - Bystanders Excluded
  Except as permitted by this code, a person may not be in the meeting place of an early voting ballot board during the time of...

SUBCHAPTER C ACCEPTING EARLY VOTING BALLOT VOTED BY MAIL

• Texas Section 87.027 - Signature Verification Committee
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1), a signature verification committee may be appointed in any election. The early voting clerk is the authority responsible...
• Texas Section 87.041 - Accepting Voter
  (a) The early voting ballot board shall open each jacket envelope for an early voting ballot voted by mail and determine whether to accept the...
• Texas Section 87.042 - Disposition Of Accepted Ballot
  (a) The early voting ballot board shall open each carrier envelope containing an accepted ballot without defacing the certificate on the carrier envelope and remove...
• Texas Section 87.043 - Disposition Of Rejected Ballot
  (a) The early voting ballot board shall place the carrier envelopes containing rejected ballots in an envelope and shall seal the envelope. More than one...
• Texas Section 87.0431 - Notice Of Rejected Ballot
  Not later than the 10th day after election day, the presiding judge of the early voting ballot board shall deliver written notice of the reason...

SUBCHAPTER D PROCESSING MANUALLY COUNTED BALLOTS

• Texas Section 87.044 - Disposition Of Application
  (a) The early voting ballot board shall place each application for a ballot voted by mail in its corresponding jacket envelope. For a ballot voted...
• Texas Section 87.061 - Authority Responsible For Counting Ballots
  The early voting ballot board shall count the early voting ballots that are to be counted manually. Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1,...
• Texas Section 87.062 - Counting Ballots And Preparing Returns
  (a) On the direction of the presiding judge, the early voting ballot board, in accordance with Section 85.032(b), shall open the container for the early...

SUBCHAPTER F PROCESSING BALLOTS COUNTED AT CENTRAL COUNTING STATION

• Texas Section 87.063 - Disposition Of Ballots And Other Items
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the presiding judge of the early voting ballot board shall deliver the early voting ballots counted by the...
• Texas Section 87.101 - Delivery Of Ballots To Counting Station
  On the direction of the presiding judge, the early voting ballot board shall deliver to the central counting station the container for the early voting...
• Texas Section 87.102 - Duplicating Paper Ballots For Automatic Counting
  (a) The authority adopting an electronic voting system in which ballots are counted at a central counting station may direct by resolution, order, or other...
• Texas Section 87.103 - Counting Ballots And Preparing Returns
  (a) The early voting electronic system ballots counted at a central counting station shall be tabulated separately from the ballots cast at precinct polling places...

SUBCHAPTER G MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 87.104 - Disposition Of Early Voting Ballot Board Returns And Other Records
  Early voting returns or other early voting election records to be delivered to the central counting station under Section 87.063(b) or 87.084(b) shall be delivered...
• Texas Section 87.121 - Early Voting Rosters
  (a) The early voting clerk shall maintain for each election a roster listing each person who votes an early voting ballot by personal appearance and...
• Texas Section 87.122 - Precinct Early Voting List
  (a) For each election precinct in the territory served by the early voting clerk, the clerk shall prepare a list containing the name, address, and...
• Texas Section 87.1221 - Disposition Of Ballot Transmittal Form
  (a) The presiding judge of the early voting ballot board shall enter on the ballot transmittal form the following information: (1) the number of personal...
• Texas Section 87.123 - Delivering Other Records And Supplies
  Not later than the second day after election day, the early voting clerk shall deliver: (1) the early voting records and supplies, other than those...
• Texas Section 87.1231 - Early Voting Votes Reported By Precinct
  Not later than the time of the local canvass, the early voting clerk shall deliver to the local canvassing authority a report of the total...
• Texas Section 87.124 - Preservation Of Early Voting Election Records Generally
  The early voting election returns, voted early voting ballots, and other early voting election records shall be preserved after the election in the same manner...
• Texas Section 87.125 - Counting Of Certain Late Ballots Voted By Mail
  (a) The early voting ballot board shall convene to count ballots voted by mail described by Section 86.007(d) at the time set by the presiding...
• Texas Section 87.126 - Electronic Recording Of Ballot Materials And Applications
  (a) The early voting clerk may electronically record applications for a ballot to be voted by mail, jacket envelopes, carrier envelopes, and ballots. (b) The...

Last modified: September 28, 2016