Tex. Election Code § 162.016
This is the official text of Tex. Election Code § 162.016, part of Texas’s Election Code — governs how elections are conducted.
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§ 162.016. WITHDRAWN CONVENTION NOMINEE INELIGIBLE FOR ANOTHER NOMINATION.
Official statutory text
If a person nominated by a convention withdraws from the general election for state and county officers, the person is ineligible for a place on the general election ballot as the party's nominee for another office unless the second nomination is for an unexpired term for which the vacancy occurred too late for a convention to make a nomination under Section 202.005.
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