Sec. 51.006.  PREPARING BALLOTS FOR DISTRIBUTION.  The authority responsible for distributing election supplies shall package and seal each set of ballots before their distribution and shall mark the package with the number of ballots enclosed and the range of the ballot serial numbers.  If the authority is the early voting clerk, the ballots allocated for early voting need not be packaged and sealed.
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.  Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 203, Sec. 2.47;  Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 554, Sec. 18, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.