CHIEF ELECTION OFFICER
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case Andrade v. NAACP of Austin (2011)
Most recently applied in Lewis v. Hughs (March 2022)
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) The secretary of state is the chief election officer of the state.
(b) The secretary shall establish in the secretary's office an elections division with an adequate staff to enable the secretary to perform the secretary's duties as chief election officer. The secretary may assign to the elections division staff any function relating to the administration of elections that is under the secretary's jurisdiction.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.