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Tex. Election Code § 172.053: ADMINISTRATIVE DECLARATION OF INELIGIBILITY AFTER POLLS CLOSE.

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ELECTION CODE
TITLE 10. POLITICAL PARTIES
SUBTITLE B. PARTIES NOMINATING BY PRIMARY ELECTION
CHAPTER 172. PRIMARY ELECTIONS
SUBCHAPTER C. WITHDRAWAL, DEATH, AND INELIGIBILITY OF CANDIDATE

Except for a judicial action in which a candidate's eligibility is in issue, after the polls close on primary election day and before the final canvass for the office sought by the candidate is completed, a candidate for nomination may be declared ineligible only by the presiding officer of the primary's final canvassing authority for that office.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986.

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