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Article 462
 

462.1. The evidence admitted and presented will be judged as a whole, in accordance with the rules of logic, experience and exercise of judgment, as well as the guiding principles of the electoral function, with the aim to produce conviction about the denounced facts.


462.2. The public documents will have full evidentiary value, unless there is contradictory evidence regarding its authenticity or the truthfulness of the facts to which they refer.


462.3. The private and technical documentary evidence, testimony of experts, and the tangible evidence of the acts of authorities, as well as those documents in which a public notary attests the statements of a properly identified person, will only have full evidentiary value when the competent body to resolve judges that they generate conviction about the truthfulness of the denounced facts, by linking with the other elements included in the file, the assertions of the parties, the known truth and straight reasoning of the relationship between them.


462.4. In the case of material impossibility to create certified copies of the uncerti f ed copies included in the f les, these will only have indicative value.