DEFINITION
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case OCA-Greater Houston v. Texas (2017)
Most recently applied in OCA-Greater Houston v. Texas (August 2017)
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 393, Sec. 4, 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.
For purposes of this subchapter and Sections 85.035 and 86.010, assisting a voter includes the following conduct by a person other than the voter that occurs while the person is in the presence of the voter's ballot or carrier envelope:
(1) reading the ballot to the voter;
(2) directing the voter to read the ballot;
(3) marking the voter's ballot; or
(4) directing the voter to mark the ballot.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.