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2025 Texas Statutes
Election Code
Title 7 - Early Voting
Subtitle A - Early Voting
Chapter 86 - Conduct of Voting by Mail
Section 86.014. Public Inspection of Early Voting Records

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TX Elec COde § 86.014 (2025)
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Sec. 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 to verify that the information pertaining to the voter is accurate, until the first business day after the election day of the earliest occurring election for which the application is submitted.

(b) Originals of the applications and carrier envelopes are not available for public inspection until those materials are delivered to the general custodian of election records after the election.

Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 472, Sec. 32, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 203, Sec. 2.12; Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 554, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 565, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1381, Sec. 18, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

Amended by:

Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1159 (H.B. 2449), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2011.

Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1178 (S.B. 910), Sec. 11, eff. September 1, 2013.

Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 484 (H.B. 2559), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2017.

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