2024 Election
Daily Early Voting Rosters will be available for viewing on the Kinney County Website
Election Information:
The next School Board Election will be May 4, 2024
Early Voting and Election Day Polling Location (May be subject to change):
Methodist Slater Hall
210 W. James St.
Brackettville, TX 78832
Early Voting Dates:
April 22-26 & April 29-30
Applications for ballot by mail may be requested from and returned to:
Kinney County Election Administrator
PO Box 9
Brackettville, Texas 78832
Last Day to File for Candidacy:
February 16, 2024 by 5 p.m.
February 16, 2024 by 5 p.m.
Requirements:
- An application for a place on the ballot must be in writing; signed, sworn to by the candidate before an authorized person to administer an oath, and dated; timely filed with the district’s filing authority; and contain specified information about the candidate:
- the candidate’s name, date of birth, and occupation;
- the candidate’s residence address or the address at which the candidate receives mail with the description of the location of the candidate’s residence;
- the candidate’s length of continuous residence in Texas and in the district as of the date the candidate swears to the application;
- if available, a public mailing address and email address at which the candidate receives correspondence relating to the candidate’s campaign;
- the office sought, including any place or other distinguishing number and an indication of whether the office sought is for a full or unexpired term;
- statements that the candidate is a U.S. citizen; has not been determined by a court to be mentally incapacitated; has not been convicted of a felony; is aware of the nepotism law.
Eligibility:
To be eligible to be a candidate for, or elected or appointed to, the office of school board member, a person must:
- Be a United States citizen.
- Be 18 years of age or older on the first day of the term to be filled at the election or on the date of appointment, as applicable;
- Have not been determined by a final judgment of a court exercising probate jurisdiction to be totally mentally incapacitated or partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote;
- Have not been finally convicted of a felony from which the person has not been pardoned or otherwise released from the resulting disabilities [but see Ineligibility below]
- Have resided continuously in the state for 12 months and in the territory from which the office is elected for six months immediately preceding the following date:
- for an independent candidate, the date of the regular filing deadline for a candidate’s application for a place on the ballot.
- for a write-in candidate, the date of the election at which the candidate’s name is written in.
- for an appointee to an office, the date the appointment is made
- Be registered to vote in the territory from which the office is elected on the date described above; and satisfies any other eligibility requirements prescribed by law for the office.
Ineligibility:
A person is ineligible to serve as a member of the board of a district if the person has been convicted of a felony or an offense under Penal Code 43.021 (solicitation of prostitution). Education Code 11.066
Contact:
BISD Election Administrator
Veronica Ibanez, Secretary to Superintendent and Board of Trustees
Email: [email protected]
Brackett ISD
201 N. Ann St.
Brackettville, TX 78832
830-563-2491, office
830-867-2044, fax
201 N. Ann St.
Brackettville, TX 78832
830-563-2491, office
830-867-2044, fax
Texas Ethics Commission
Terms, Qualifications, and Vacancies
Application for a Place on the Ballot For School Board of Trustee General Election