Tex. Election Code § 214.002
This is the official text of Tex. Election Code § 214.002, part of Texas’s Election Code — governs how elections are conducted.
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§ 214.002. COUNTING PROCEDURE.
Official statutory text
(a) One member of a counting team shall read the ballots, and the other two members shall tally the votes as the ballots are read.
(b) The count shall be made, and the correctness of the tally lists shall be certified, in the same manner as an original count of regular paper ballots, except that only two tally lists are prepared.
(b) The count shall be made, and the correctness of the tally lists shall be certified, in the same manner as an original count of regular paper ballots, except that only two tally lists are prepared.
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