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Tex. Elec. Code § 82.003 (2026)

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Sec. 82.003. AGE. A qualified voter is eligible for early voting by mail if the voter is 65 years of age or older on election day.

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 211, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1986. Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 472, Sec. 19, eff. Sept. 1, 1987; Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 203, Sec. 2.05; Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 554, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 4 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2020–2025 · leading case: State v. Chris Hollins, in His Off. Capacity as Harris Cnty. Clerk (Tex. App. 2020).

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State v. Chris Hollins, in His Off. Capacity as Harris Cnty. Clerk (Tex. App. 2020). “See Tex. Elec. Code Ann. § 82.003 . 3 4 The mailer containing the application states, “DO YOU QUALIFY TO VOTE BY MAIL?” in large capital letters and bold font, and specifically instructs the voter to “READ THIS BEFORE APPLYING FOR A MAIL BALLOT.”

Disability Law Ctr. of Alaska v. Meyer (D. Alaska 2020). “Of particular import, the court noted that the state “need not run the risk of losing an entire remedial scheme simply because it failed, through inadvertence or otherwise, to cover every evil that might conceivably have been attacked.”

Damon Johnson v. Waller Cnty., Texas (S.D. Tex. 2020). “Id at 402, citing Texas Election Code § 82.003. This ran into claims brought under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Twenty-Sixth Amendment.”

Un del Pueblo Entero v. Nelson (5th Cir. 2025). “245 We concluded, “the mere fact that the Attorney General has the authority to enforce [the statute] cannot be said to ‘constrain’ the City from enforcing the Ordinance.” 246 Similarly, we concluded that the plaintiffs in TDP failed to allege that the Attorney General had a…”

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