2025 Texas Statutes
Election Code
Title 5 - Election Supplies
Chapter 52 - Ballot Form, Content, and Preparation
Subchapter A. Preparing the Ballot
Section 52.006. Correcting Ballot
Sec. 52.006. CORRECTING BALLOT. (a) To make a necessary correction on the ballot, the authority responsible for having the official ballot prepared may:
(1) prepare new ballots;
(2) line out or otherwise obscure the language being corrected and enter in printed form the correct language next to the language being corrected, if necessary; or
(3) prepare printed or blank correction stickers to be affixed to the ballots.
(b) A correction sticker used under this section must be printed in the same type style and on the same color of paper as the ballot.
(c) A correction sticker may be affixed to a ballot only by the authority responsible for having the official ballot prepared or by an election officer serving a polling place.
(d) A vote may not be counted for a name appearing on a correction sticker unless the sticker is prepared and affixed to the ballot as provided by this section.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.
