Sec. 87.0223.  TIME OF DELIVERY:  BALLOTS SENT OUT BY REGULAR MAIL AND E-MAIL.  (a)  If the early voting clerk has provided a voter a ballot to be voted by mail by both regular mail and e-mail under Subchapter C, Chapter 101, the clerk may not deliver a jacket envelope containing the early voting ballot voted by mail by the voter to the board until:
(1)  both ballots are returned; or
(2)  the deadline for returning marked ballots under Section 86.007 has passed.
(b)  If both the ballot provided by regular mail and the ballot provided by e-mail are returned before the deadline, the early voting clerk shall deliver only the jacket envelope containing the ballot provided by e-mail to the board.  The ballot provided by regular mail is considered to be a ballot not timely returned.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1318 (S.B. 100), Sec. 10, eff. September 1, 2011.