EAdIElection Administration Index

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

§ 273.061 codifies judicial review of election-authority conduct: the Supreme Court or a court of appeals 'may issue a writ of mandamus to compel the performance of any duty imposed by law in connection with the holding of an election,' regardless of whether the responsible person is a public officer. § 273.063 codifies venue in the courts of appeals, § 31.130 codifies suit against an election officer, and § 31.005 codifies secretary-of-state enforcement through injunction/mandamus via the attorney general. Standing, timeline and venue codified.

“may issue a writ of mandamus to compel the performance of any duty imposed by law in connection with the holding of an election”

§ 51.002 codifies that 'a county election board is established in each county' for the general election, with a defined composition (county judge, county clerk, voter registrar, sheriff, and the county chair of each primary-nominating party). § 31.032 establishes the county election commission and § 31.153 the joint elections commission. The election-administration bodies are firmly grounded in statute (the Election Code) — but in statute alone, not in the Texas Constitution, so the constitutional-grounding criterion is only partially met.

“A county election board is established in each county”

§ 87.002 codifies that the early-voting ballot board is appointed by the county election board from ranked lists submitted by each political party, and § 31.032 / § 51.002 compose the county election commission and county election board from multiple county officeholders (judge, clerk, registrar, sheriff) plus party chairs. Control is distributed across multiple officeholders and both major parties, but this is not a tripartite legislative/judicial/executive appointment, so the multi-branch criterion is not met.

§ 32.002 codifies term protection for election judges: 'judges appointed under Subsection (a) serve for a term of one year' (or two years by recorded order), with defined term-start dates and a codified vacancy-filling procedure. § 32.002(g) codifies the grounds and procedure for removal — only following an oral warning, with the concurrence of the relevant county party chair, and only where the judge causes a disruption or wilfully disobeys the code. Fixed terms plus statutory removal grounds codified.

“Judges appointed under Subsection (a) serve for a term of one year”

§ 87.002 codifies a political-balance requirement for the early-voting ballot board: each county party chair submits a ranked list and 'the same number of members must be appointed from each list,' with the presiding and alternate presiding judges drawn from the two parties whose gubernatorial nominees placed first and second. § 51.002 and § 31.032 likewise seat the county chair of each primary-nominating party. Statutory party balance codified.

“The same number of members must be appointed from each list”

§ 31.100 codifies a separate, insulated election-services-contract fund: money paid under an election-services contract is 'deposited in a separate fund in the county treasury,' the county election officer 'may make expenditures from the fund without budgeting or appropriation by the commissioners court,' and § 31.100(g) bars the commissioners court from considering the fund in adopting the office's budget. This insulates contract funds, though the election authority's core staff budget is still annually appropriated by the commissioners court.

“deposited in a separate fund in the county treasury. The county election officer may make expenditures from the fund without budgeting or appropriation by the commissioners court”

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

§ 32.114 codifies mandatory training: the county clerk must provide training using the standardized secretary-of-state program, and 'each election judge shall complete the training program,' with election clerks required to complete the part on voter-ID handling. § 32.111 codifies the training standards and required content (including § 63.001 ID procedures), and § 32.1111 codifies an online training program with an end-of-program examination. Mandatory training with defined content codified.

“Each election judge shall complete the training program.”

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

§ 122.031 codifies that a voting system may not be used until approved by the secretary of state; § 122.032-122.033 codify the approval requirements; § 122.035 codifies the examiner panel (four appointed by the secretary of state, two by the attorney general, with pecuniary-interest disqualification); § 129.021 codifies acceptance testing including hash validation; and § 129.023 codifies the public logic-and-accuracy test. The voting-equipment certification process — criteria, evaluators, timeline, and public test — is comprehensively codified.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: The FTS query surfaced only § 20.031 (voter-registration-agency form on 'recertification' of agency services), which is unrelated to voting-equipment recertification. Reexamination of an approved voting system is codified in § 122.038-122.039, but no recertification-trigger provision was surfaced for this datapoint.

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.