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Article 79
 

79.1. The district councils, within the scope of their competence, will have the following responsibilities:


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


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


c) To determine the number and location of the polling stations in accordance with the procedure set out in articles 256 and 258 of this Law;


d) To randomly draw from a list the polling station of f cials according to the procedure established in article 254 of this Law and to oversee that the directive boards of the polling stations are set up in the terms of this Law;


e) To register the formulas of candidates for representatives by the principle of plurality;


f) To register the appointments of the representatives that the political parties accredit for Election Day;


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


h) To issue, where applicable, the identi f cation of the representatives of the parties within forty-eight hours after their registration and, in any case, ten days before Election Day;


i) To carry out the district counts and the declaration of validity of the elections of representatives by the principle of plurality and the district count of the election of representatives by proportional representation;


j) To carry out the district counts of the election of senators by the principles of plurality and proportional representation;


k) To carry out the district count of the vote for the President of the United Mexican States;


l) To supervise the activities carried out by the district executive boards during the electoral process, and


m) The other responsibilities established by this Law.