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Article 143
 

143.1. They can request the voter card with photography to be issued or the recti f cation before the Institute of f ce responsible for the registration, or in the case of citizens residing abroad by 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 for this to be done from abroad, those citizens who:


a) Have fulfilled the corresponding requirements and procedures but that did who receive their voter card with photography in a timely manner;


b) Have opportunely obtained the voter card with photography, but who do not appear in the nominal list of voters of the section corresponding to their address, or


c) Consider that they have been unduly excluded from the nominal list of voters of the section corresponding to their address.


143.2. In the cases referred to in the previous paragraph, the request for the issuing or rectification will be presented at any time during the two years prior to the electoral process.


143.3. In the election year the citizens that find themselves in the situation referred to in subparagraph a) of paragraph 1 of this article could f le the corresponding administrative request to obtain their voter card until the last day of January. In the cases referred to in subparagraphs b) and c) of the mentioned paragraph, the citizens could present the rectification request no later than March 14.


143.4. In the offices of the Federal Register of Voters, the forms necessary for the presentation of the respective request will be available to the citizens.


143.5. The office before which the request for the issuing of a voter card or the rectification has been made will resolve on the admissibility or inadmissibility of the same during a period of twenty calendar days.


143.6. The decision which declares the administrative request to obtain the voter card or of rectif cation or of lack of timely response inadmissible can be appealed before the Electoral Tribunal. For this purpose, the interested citizens will have access to the necessary forms to lodge the respective challenge in the offices of the Federal Register of Voters.


143.7. The decision reached regarding the administrative request to obtain the voter card or of rectif cation will be personally notif ed to the citizen if he appears before the off ce responsible for the register or, where applicable, by telegram or registered mail.