Tex. Election Code § 65.055
DISPOSITION OF ACCEPTED PROVISIONAL BALLOT AND AFFIDAVIT
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- Tex. Election Code § 65.055, DISPOSITION OF ACCEPTED PROVISIONAL BALLOT AND AFFIDAVIT, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/640452
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(a) The early voting ballot board shall open each envelope containing an accepted provisional ballot without defacing the affidavit located on the outside of the envelope and shall remove the ballot.
(b) The board shall place the ballot in a ballot box containing all the provisional ballots accepted for voting in the election.
(c) For each accepted provisional ballot, the board shall place the corresponding envelope on which is printed the voter's affidavit executed under Section 63.011 in a sealed envelope and shall deliver the envelope to the general custodian of election records, to be retained for the period for preserving precinct election returns.