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Article 54
 

54.1. The Executive Directorate of the Federal Register of Voters has the following responsibilities:


a) To partially apply the census technique in the territorial area determined by the General Executive Board;


b) To create the Registry of Voters;


c) To issue the voter card according the provisions of the First Title of the Fourth Book of this Law;


d) To annually review and update the Registry of Voters in accordance with the procedure established in the Fourth Book of this Law;


e) To establish the necessary coordination with the federal, state and local authorities in order to obtain the information about deceased citizens, or about the loss, suspension or acquisition of citizenship;


f) To provide the responsible bodies of the Institute and the national political parties and candidates with the nominal lists of voters in the terms of this Law;


g) To elaborate, based on the studies done, the project of dividing the national territory into 300 single-member electoral districts, as well as the project of the f ve multi-member regional districts;


h) To keep the electoral cartography of the country updated, classi f ed by state, federal electoral district, local electoral district, municipality and electoral section;


i) To ensure that the national, state and district monitoring commissions will be integrated, meet and function according to the terms established by this Law;


j) To be in charge of the register and attendance books of the political party representatives to the monitoring commissions;


k) To request from the monitoring commissions the studies and the carrying out of consultations on the issues it deems appropriate within the scope of its competence;


l) To agree with the Executive Secretary of the Institute on the matters of its competence;


m) To participate in the sessions of the Commission of the Federal Register of Voters only with the right to speak;


n) To carry out the veri f cation of the percentage of citizens registered in the nominal list of voters required to request a referendum or a popular initiative before the Congress of the Union, in terms of the provisions of the laws, and


ñ) The other responsibilities set out in this Law.


54.2. The National Monitoring Commission will be created to assist in the work regarding the Registry of Voters, and this commission will be presided over by the Executive Director of the Registry of Voters, with the participation of the national political parties.


54.3. The signatures referred to in article 71, section IV of the Constitution are not counted for the purpose of the percentage required in the case of any of the following circumstances:


a) Names with incomplete, false or misleading information, that do not allow the identification of the citizen;


b) They are not complimented by the voter code or the identifying number located on the back of the voter card deriving from the optical recognition of characters of the valid voter card;


c) A citizen has signed the same initiative two times or more; in this case, only one of the signatures will be counted, and


d) When the citizens have been excluded from the nominal list for any of the reasons established in this Law.


54.4. Once the verification of the signatures has been completed, the Executive General Directorate of the Federal Register of Voters will forward to the Executive Secretary of the Institute a detailed and disaggregated report, which should contain:


a) The total number of signatories;


b) The number of signatories included in the nominal list of voters and the corresponding percentage;


c) The number of signatories not included in the nominal list of voters and the corresponding percentage, and


d) The citizens that have been excluded from the nominal list for any of the reasons established in this Law.