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3 Document(s) [ Subject: Provisional ballots ]
| Committee: | House Elections | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on Elections, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2010 : a report to the House of Representatives, 82nd Texas Legislature | |
| Subjects: | Campaign finance reform | Election administration | Election fraud | Judicial campaign contributions | Military personnel | Provisional ballots | Supreme Court arguments and decisions, U.S. | Voter identification | Voter turnout | Voting by mail | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.81 El25he | |
| Session: | 81st R.S. (2009) | |
| Online version: | View report [36 pages File size: 736 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study ways the state can enhance military and overseas voters' ability to obtain and return balloting materials and reduce burdens on those voters' exercise of their right to vote. Joint Interim Charge with House Committee on Defense and Veterans' Affairs | |
| 2. | Examine the use of central polling places and compare voter turnout and the number of rejected provisional ballots in counties that use central polling places with similar counties that do not. | |
| 3. | Examine the prevalence of fraud in Texas elections. Study new laws in other states regarding voter identification and recommend statutory changes necessary to ensure that only eligible voters can vote in Texas elections. | |
| 4. | Review the Texas campaign finance law in judicial races in light of the recent United States Supreme Court decision Caperton v. Massey. Joint Interim Charge with House Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence | |
| 5. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction. | |
| Committee: | House Elections | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Subjects: | Election administration | Election fraud | Email | Lobbyists | Political advertising | Provisional ballots | State purchasing | Voter identification | Voter registration | Voting by mail | Voting systems | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.80 EL25he | |
| Session: | 80th R.S. (2007) | |
| Online version: | View report [161 pages File size: 19,242 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Study the general issue of electronic voting technology, including the issues of general benefits and risks, security and accuracy, paper trails, etc. | |
| 2. | Examine the prevalence of fraud in Texas elections, considering prosecution rates and measures for prevention. Study new laws in other states regarding voter identification, and recommend statutory changes necessary to ensure that only eligible voters can vote in Texas elections. Specifically study the Texas mail-in ballot system, the provisional voting system, and the various processes for purging voter lists of ineligible voters. | |
| 3. | Monitor the continued implementation of the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 by the Office of the Secretary of State, specifically including the implementation of the Texas Election Administration Management system to maintain voter registration records, administer elections, and execute and report election results. | |
| 4. | Study poll worker recruitment and training in Texas, and suggest possible statutory improvements. | |
| 5. | Monitor which counties are chosen by the Office of the Secretary of State for the new super precinct pilot program, and observe their progress. | |
| 6. | Study the exemption in the Texas lobby contingent fee ban, which currently permits contingent fees and does not require lobby registration, for influencing the purchasing of goods and services by a state agency. Consider whether this exemption should be amended or repealed. | |
| 7. | Research the current Texas law prohibiting the use of public resources for political advertising, and determine whether the law needs to be amended to clarify that publicly funded e-mail systems may not be used for political advertising. | |
| 8. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction. | |
| Committee: | House Elections | |
| Title: | Interim Report | |
| Library Catalog Title: | House Committee on Elections, Texas House of Representatives interim report, 2004 : a report to the House of Representatives, 79th Texas Legislature | |
| Subjects: | Election laws | Ethics Commission, Texas | Provisional ballots | Secretary of State, Texas | Statutory revision | Voter registration | Voting systems | | |
| Library Call Number: | L1836.78 EL25he | |
| Session: | 78th R.S. (2003) | |
| Online version: | View report [25 pages File size: 89 kb] | |
| Charges: | This report should address the charges below. | |
| 1. | Review compliance with the provisions of the Federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and implementation through the Secretary of State's office of the legislation passed as issues surrounding HAVA become more settled. | |
| 2. | Examine the risks, costs, benefits and efficiencies of the entire canon of Texas Election Law for an omnibus rewrite and recodification. | |
| 3. | Monitor the Texas Ethics Commission rulemaking for the implementation of HB 1606, 78th R.S.. | |
| 4. | Monitor the agencies and programs under the committee's jurisdiction. | |
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