The presiding judge of the early-voting ballot board shall convene the board between the third and fifth day after election day to count late early-voted ballots cast from outside the country and placed in delivery by 7:00 p.m. on election day, so that the governing body of the territory conducting the election can timely canvass the election returns no earlier than the third day or later than the sixth day after election day.
1 Tex. Admin. Code § 81.32