Texas Election Code

§ 105.001 — ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION OF COMPLETED BALLOT

EL § 105.001Title 7. EARLY VOTING · Part B. SPECIAL FORMS OF EARLY VOTING · Ch. 105. VOTING BY MILITARY PERSONNEL OR OTHER PERSONS OVERSEAS

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(a)The secretary of state shall prescribe procedures to allow a person who is casting an early voting ballot by mail to return the ballot by telephonic facsimile machine or similar electronic means if the person:

(1)is a member of the armed forces of the United States who is on active duty overseas, or the spouse or a dependent of the member; and

(2)is casting the ballot from an area:

(A)in which members of the armed forces are eligible to receive hostile fire pay or imminent danger pay; or

(B)that has been designated by the president of the United States as a combat zone.

(b)The procedures must:

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1349, Sec. 45, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.