254.1. The procedure to integrate the directive boards of the polling stations will be as follows:

a) The General Council, in December of the year prior to the election, will raf f e a month of the calendar that, together with the one after, will be used as the base of the random drawing of the citizens who will integrate the directive boards of the polling stations. This procedure will be carried out with the cutoff of the nominal list until December 15 of the year prior to the election;

b) In accordance with the result obtained in the raffle referred to in the previous paragraph, between February 1 and 7 of the election year the executive district boards will proceed to randomly draw, from the nominal lists of voters integrated by the citizens that obtained their voter card before December 15 of the year prior to the election, 13% of the citizens of each electoral section, provided that the number of randomly drawn citizens cannot under any circumstances be lower than fifty. For this purpose, the boards could be supported by the computing centers of the Institute. In the latter case, the members of the local council and the local monitoring commission of the Federal Register of Voters of the entity in question could be present in the random drawing procedure, according to the previously established program;

c) The selected citizens will be called to participate in a training course which will be given from February 9 to March 31 of the election year;

d) The boards will make an impartial and objective evaluation to select, under equal opportunities, based on the information given by the citizens during the training courses, the ones who are suitable in the terms of this Law, preferring those with higher education, and will inform the members of the district councils about this entire procedure, in writing and in a plenary session;

e) The General Council, in February of the election year, will raffle the 26 letters included in the alphabet, in order to obtain the letter from which, based on the paternal surname, the citizens who will integrate the directive boards of the will be selected;

f) In accordance to the results obtained from the raffle mentioned in the previous subparagraph, the district boards will between February 9 and April 4 make a list of the citizens that, having participated in the corresponding training, do not have any impediment from carrying out the role, in the terms of this Law. From this list, the district councils will randomly draw the citizens who will integrate the directive boards of the polling stations no later than April 6;

g) No later than April 8 the district boards will integrate the directive boards with the selected citizens, in accordance with the procedure described in the previous subparagraph, and will establish the functions to be carried out by each one of them in the polling station according to their education. Once the integration of the directive boards of the polling stations is made, the district boards will, no later than April 10 of the election year, request the publication of the lists of their members for all the electoral sections in each district, which will be communicated to the respective district councils, and

h) The district councils will personally notify the members of the directive boards of the polling stations of their appointment and will require them to swear in, as required by the Law.

254.2. The representatives of the political parties in the district councils could oversee the development of the procedure established in this article.

254.3. In the event of substitutions, the district boards should inform the representatives of the political parties of the same in a detailed and timely manner. The procedure to carry out said substitutions should follow the established for this effect in the regulations issued by the Institute.