104.1. It corresponds to the Local Public Bodies to exercise functions in the following areas:

a) To apply the general provisions, rules, guidelines, criteria and forms that the Institutes establishes in the exercise of the functions given to it by the Constitution and this Law;

b) To guarantee the rights and the access to the prerogatives of the political parties and candidates;

c) To guarantee the timely administration of the public f nancing that the national and local political parties and, where applicable, the Independent Candidates in the entity are entitled to;

d) To develop and carry out the civic education programs in the corresponding entity;

e) To provide guidance for citizens in the entity for the exercise of their rights and fulfillment of their political-electoral duties;

f) To carry out the activities necessary for the preparation for the Election Day;

g) To print the documents and produce the electoral materials in the terms of the guidelines issued by the Institute for this effect;

h) To carry out the scrutiny and total count of the elections held in the corresponding state, based on the results recorded in the district and municipal count certi f cates;

i) To issue the certificates of majority and to declare the validity of the election of the candidates that obtained the majority of votes as well as to issue the seat allocation certi f cates to the proportional representation formulas of the local legislatures, according to the count and declaration of validity issued by the same body;

j) To carry out the count of the election of head of the Executive Branch of the entity in question;

k) To implement and operate the Preliminary Electoral Results Program for the elections held in the entity, in accordance with the rules, guidelines, criteria and forms that the Institute issues for this purpose;

l) To verify the compliance with the general criteria issued by the Institute regarding surveys or opinion polls on electoral preferences that the natural or legal persons that aim to carry out this type of studies in the entity in question should respect;

m) To develop the activities required to guarantee the right of the citizens to engage in electoral observation in the entity in question, in accordance with the guidelines and criteria issued by the Institute; n) To order the performance of quick counts based on the scrutiny and count certificates of the polling stations in order to know the tendencies of the results on Election Day, in accordance with the guidelines issued by the Institute;

ñ) To organize, develop and carry out the count of votes and to declare the results of the mechanisms of citizen participation set out in the legislation of the state in question;

o) To supervise the activities carried out by the district, local and municipal bodies in the corresponding entity during the electoral process;

p) To exercise the function of electoral clerk regarding the acts and facts of an exclusively electoral nature;

q) To inform the Technical Unit of Liaising with the Local Public Bodies about the exercise of the functions delegated to them by the Institute, in accordance with the provisions of this Law and other regulations issued by the General Council, and

r) The other functions established by this Law, and those not reserved to the Institute that are established in the corresponding local legislation.