Tex. Election Code § 51.006
This is the official text of Tex. Election Code § 51.006, part of Texas’s Election Code — governs how elections are conducted.
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§ 51.006. PREPARING BALLOTS FOR DISTRIBUTION.
Official statutory text
The authority responsible for distributing election supplies shall package and seal each set of ballots before their distribution and shall mark the package with the number of ballots enclosed and the range of the ballot serial numbers. If the authority is the early voting clerk, the ballots allocated for early voting need not be packaged and sealed.
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