Tex. Election Code § 68.003
This is the official text of Tex. Election Code § 68.003, part of Texas’s Election Code — governs how elections are conducted.
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§ 68.003. DISPLAY TERMINALS FOR CERTAIN STATE OFFICERS.
Official statutory text
(a) For monitoring the tabulations, the secretary of state shall provide display terminals without charge to the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house of representatives in their Capitol offices. The secretary shall also provide printers at those locations if printers are made available at any location.
(b) The officers who are provided terminals or printers under this section may not provide access to data from those terminals or printers to members of the working news media.
(b) The officers who are provided terminals or printers under this section may not provide access to data from those terminals or printers to members of the working news media.
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