Texas

Search by jurisdiction: none
Soft matching: none
Signing dates: no sandwiching, year is required (skipping date checks for Bull Creek)
Transcribing: allowed

Circulator Declarations

The shorthand is the

1. first letter of the first name at the top of the form
2. first letter of the last name at the top of the form
3. first letter of county
4. first letter of the first name below the signatures
5. first letter of the last name below the signatures

Enter the signing date and check the boxes only if signed by the circulator, signed by the notary, notary title handwritten, and notary stamped.

Only the pages that load a circulator declaration form need the declaration filled out. In Texas, the circulator only has to complete the declaration on the last signature page they turn-in. Don't be alarmed while validating signatures to see blank declarations below. It's only a bad dec if the dec form loads in Sigtrack.

Signatures

You can now search in birthdate mode with either month and day, or month, day, and 2-digit year. "407smi" and 40783smi" will both work. This will help you quickly find voters with common names, but may not be useful beyond that.

In Texas, the Smart Search will filter the results by county instead of by street name when you enter a third word. 123sm j trav will search in Travis County only. Similar to how you can filter by municipality in Michigan.

Dittos are allowed on everything but legal signature. While a signing date is required on every line, treat dittos on signing date the same as if they filled out the date.

If birth date, female first name, and address match, it is a hard match even if last name differs.

If there is no birth date, voter ID number, or address, tag -ab0. Only one of those three needs to be written.

City and county are not required.

House number can be written over, if you can match by birthdate, and birthdate can be written over if you can match by address so long as you can somewhat make out a matching birthdate. If you can find the voter and the house number could possibly match what's in the voter file, accept it as a match. If not, accept as a non match, no deficiency.

Signature lines are not physically numbered. Furthermore, there are multiple signature pages per section. Don't flag when you see lines 11-20, 21-30, 101-110, and so on.