Sec. 127.132. DISPOSITION OF BALLOTS, RETURNS, AND OTHER RECORDS. (a) The presiding judge of a central counting station shall distribute the voted ballots, election returns, and other election records from the counting station to the appropriate authorities.
(b) The voted ballots, election returns, poll list, tally lists for manually counted votes, and other election records shall be delivered to the authorities who receive the corresponding records from precinct polling places using regular paper ballots.
(c) The election records delivered to the general custodian of election records may be delivered in any container approved by the secretary of state for that purpose.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986. Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 54, Sec. 22, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Structure Texas Statutes
Chapter 127 - Processing Electronic Voting System Results
Subchapter E. Processing Results at Central Counting Station
Section 127.121. Programmer for Tabulating Equipment
Section 127.122. Approval of Program
Section 127.123. Security of Program
Section 127.1231. Security of Automatic Tabulating Equipment
Section 127.1232. Security of Voted Ballots
Section 127.124. Early Processing of Ballots
Section 127.125. Preparing Ballots for Automatic Counting
Section 127.126. Duplicating Ballots
Section 127.127. Operating Equipment and Handling Ballots Restricted
Section 127.128. Ballots Tabulated by Precinct
Section 127.129. Correction of Results After Equipment Malfunction
Section 127.130. Manual Counting
Section 127.1301. Centrally Counted Optical Scan Ballots
Section 127.131. Preparing Returns
Section 127.1311. Announcing Unofficial Results
Section 127.132. Disposition of Ballots, Returns, and Other Records