32.1. The Institute will have the following responsibilities:

a) For the federal and local electoral processes:

1. The electoral training;


2. The electoral geography, which includes the determination of the electoral districts and their division into electoral sections, as well as the boundaries of the multi-member regional districts and the establishment of their capitals;


3. The registry of voters and the list of voters;


4. The location of the polling stations and the appointment of the officials for their directive boards;


5. The rules, guidelines, criteria and forms regarding preliminary results; opinion polls and surveys; electoral observation; quick counts; printing of documents and production of electoral materials, and


6. The audit of the income and expenditure of the political parties and candidates.

b) For the federal electoral processes:

1. The registration of the national political parties;


2. The recognition of the rights and the access to the prerogatives of the national political parties and the candidates for federal elective offices;


3. The preparation for the Election Day;


4. The printing of documents and the production of electoral materials;


5. The scrutiny and counts in the terms established by this Law;


6. The count of the election of the President of the United Mexican State in each of the single-member electoral districts; 


7. The declaration of validity and delivery of the certif cates in the election of representatives and senators;


8. The civic education in the federal electoral processes, and IX. The other responsibilities set out in this Law and other applicable provisions.

2. In addition to the aforementioned, the Institute, in the terms established by this Law, will have the following responsibilities:

a) The organization of the election of the leaders of the political parties, at the request of the political parties and discounting the cost from their public financing, in the terms established by the Law;

b) The election and removal of the President Councilor and the Electoral Councilors of the Local Public Bodies;

c) To sign agreements with bodies of the Federal Executive Branch that establish the coordination mechanisms and ensure cooperation regarding financial intelligence;

d) The verification of the requirements, as well as the organization, development, count and declaration of results of the referendums referred to in section VIII of article 35 of the Constitution;

e) To verify the percentage required by section IV of article 71 of the Constitution for the presentation of popular initiatives by the citizens;

f) To directly take over the realization of the activities belonging to the electoral function corresponding to the Local Public Bodies, in the terms of this Law;

g) To delegate responsibilities to the Local Public Bodies, maintaining the right to resume the direct exercise of the same at any moment;

h) To draw to its knowledge any issue corresponding to the Local Public Bodies, when its transcendence merits it or in order to establish an interpretative criterion;

i) To issue general criteria to guarantee the development of the mechanisms of citizen participation provided for in the federal laws issued for this purpose, so that the citizens participate, individually or collectively, in the public decisions, and

j) The other responsibilities set out in this Law and other applicable provisions.