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Article 68
 

68.1. The local councils, within the scope of their competence, will have the following responsibilities:


a) To oversee the compliance with this Law, and with the agreements and decisions of the electoral authorities;


b) To oversee that the district councils are set up in the state according to the terms of this Law;


c) To appoint by absolute majority, in November of the year prior to the election, the Electoral Councilors who integrate the district councils referred to in paragraph 3 of article 76 of this Law, based on the proposals made for this purpose by the President Councilor and the ordinary local Electoral Councilors;


d) To resolve the challenges they are responsible for in the terms of the law on the matter;


e) To accredit the Mexican citizens, or the association to which they belong, that have presented their application to the president of the local council to participate as observers during the electoral process, in accordance with subparagraph c) of paragraph 1 of article 217 of this Law;


f) To publish the integration of the district councils in at least one of the most widely circulated newspapers of the State;


g) To register the appointments of the general representatives or representatives to the directive boards of the polling stations in a supplementary manner in the case provided for in paragraph 3 of article 264 of this Law;


h) To register the formulas of senatorial candidates by the principle of plurality;


i) To carry out the total count and the declaration of validity of the election of senators by the principle of plurality, based on the results recorded in the district count certi f cates, to make the corresponding results known and to deliver the original and the certified copies of the file in the terms set out in the Fifth Book of this Law;


j) To carry out the state count of the election of senators by the principle of proportional representation based on the results recorded in the district count certificates, to make the corresponding results known and to deliver the original and the certified copies of the file in the terms set out in the Fifth Book of this Law;


k) To appoint, in the event of the absence of the secretary, to the Institute from among the members of the corresponding system of the National Professional Electoral Service, the person who will act as secretary in the session;


l) To supervise the activities carried out by the local executive boards during the electoral process;


m) To appoint the commissions of councilors necessary to monitor and organize the appropriate exercise of their responsibilities, with the number of members established for each case, and


n) The other responsibilities established by this Law.