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Article 136
 

136.1. The citizens will have the duty to go to the of f ces or modules determined by the Institute to request and obtain the voter card with photography.


136.2. To request the voter card, the citizens should identify themselves, preferably with an identity document issued by an authority, or through the means or procedures determined by the National Monitoring Commission of the Federal Register of Voters. The Executive Directorate of the Federal Register of Voters will keep digital copies of the presented documents.


136.3. In all cases, when requesting the registration procedure, the applicants should provide their signature and fingerprints in the respective form.


136.4. When receiving the voter card, the citizens should identify themselves, preferably with an identity document issued by an authority, or to the satisfaction of the electoral public servant who delivers the voter card, in accordance with the procedures agreed on by the National Monitoring Commission. The Executive Directorate of the Federal Register of Voters will keep a digital copy of the certificate of the delivery of the voter card.


136.5. In case that the citizens do not come to pick up their voter card during the corresponding period, the Institute, by the most efficient means available to it, will send up to three reminders for them to proceed to pick it up. If the failure to comply continues, the provisions of article 155 of this Law will be followed.


136.6. The Executive Directorate of the Federal Register of Voters, in accordance with the procedure established by the General Council for this effect, will take the measures to control, safeguard and, where necessary, destroy the voter card forms that were not used.


136.7. The offices of the Federal Register of Voters will verify that the names of the citizens that have not come to obtain their voter cards do not appear in the nominal lists of voters.


136.8. The citizens residing abroad will comply with the provisions of this article through the means determined by the Executive Directorate of the Federal Register of Voters with the approval of the National Monitoring Commission of the Federal Register of Voters.