1. (a) The balloting materials for voting by mail shall be provided to the voter by mail, unless the ballot is delivered to a voter for early voting under Chapter 107. A ballot provided by any other method may not be counted.
2. (b) Subject to Subsection (c), the balloting materials shall be addressed to the applicable address specified in the voter's application. The election officer providing the ballot may not knowingly deliver the materials to an address other than that prescribed by this section.

3. (c) The address to which the balloting materials must be addressed is the address at which the voter is registered to vote, or the registered mailing address if different, unless the ground for voting by mail is:

   1. (1) absence from the county of residence, in which case the address must be an address outside the voter's county of residence;
   2. (2) confinement in jail, in which case the address must be the address of the jail or of a relative described by Section 84.002(a)(4); or
   3. (3) age or disability and the voter is living at a hospital, nursing home or other long-term care facility, or retirement center, or with a relative described by Section 84.002(a)(3), in which case the address must be the address of that facility or relative.
4. (d) If the applicable address specified in a voter's application is an address other than that prescribed by Subsection (c), the voter's application shall be rejected in accordance with Section 86.001(c).
5. (e) A voter who makes an application to vote early by mail on the grounds of age or disability requesting that the ballot be sent to the address of a residential care facility, as defined by Chapter 107, is required to vote as provided by that chapter if five or more applications for ballots to be voted by mail are made by residents of the same facility who request that the ballots be sent to that facility.

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

Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 203, Sec. 2.12;

Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 554, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991;

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 565, Sec. 4, eff. Sept. 1, 1997;

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1381, Sec. 14, eff. Sept. 1, 1997;

Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1316, Sec. 23, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.

Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 980 (H.B. 658), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2017.