NATIONAL ELECTORAL INSTITUTE

FEDERAL REGISTRATION OF VOTERS

February, 2015

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National Electoral Institute

The organization of elections is a

State function that is performed

through the National Electoral

Institute and local government

agencies.

The Constitution of the United Mexican States provides that in the

INE are only involved citizens, representatives of the

legislative branch and the national political parties. Also in

the Constitution it is defined the independence in the

functioning, decision-making and legal status of the INE.

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Federal Registration of Voters

The Federal Registration of Voters is responsible of the following activities:

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2,000,000

4,000,000

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Electoral Roll and Voters Lists

To February 3rd, 2014

The Electoral Roll is the data base containing the Mexican citizens basic information, of those who applied for the federal Voter Photo-ID Card.

Female51.50%Male

48.50%

Voters List contains the citizens who have their valid Voter Photo-ID Card, that may cast their vote on the election day.

Voters List Coverage in relationship with

the Electoral Roll: 94.5%

Female51.91%Male48.09%

Foreign Residents Voters List for the scrutiny and counting: 59,051 Citizens

TOTAL : 82,623,200

TOTAL : 87,430,429

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Electoral Roll and Voters List Evolution

1 Source:  Memoirs of the Federal Electoral Process 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003 y 2006.2 Up to July 5, 2009. SIIRFE-SIE3 Up to July 1st, 2012. SIIRFE-SIE4 Up to December 27, 2013. SIIRFE-SIE5 Up to December 26, 2014. SIIRFE-SIE6 Up to February 03, 2015. SIIRFE-SIE

Year ElectoralRoll

VotersList

% of coverage

1991 39,239,107 36,675,367 93.47

1994 47,480,159 45,729,053 96.31

1997 53,022,198 52,208,966 98.47

2000 59,584,542 58,782,737 98.65

2003 65,337,047 64,710,596 99.04

20061 71,730,868 71,350,976 99.47

20092 77,815,606 77,481,874 99.57

20123 84,464,713 79,454,802 94.07

20134 88,061,963 82,013,989 93.13

20145 87,086,03982,127,09

294.31

20156 87,430,429

82,623,200

94.501991 1994 1997 2000 2003 2006 2009 2012 2013 2014 2015

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39,1

07

47,4

80,1

59

53,0

22,1

98

59,5

84,5

42

65,3

37,0

47

71,7

30,8

68

77,8

15,6

06

84,4

64,7

13

86,3

10,8

49

87,0

86,0

39

87,4

30,4

29

36,6

75,3

67

45,7

29,0

53

52,2

08,9

66

58,7

82,7

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64,7

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96

71,3

50,9

76

77,4

81,8

74

79,4

54,8

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13,9

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92

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Electoral Roll Voters List

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Electoral Roll

In the Electoral Roll, the following data are registered:

Full name Place and date of birth Age and gender Current address and residence time Occupation In case, number and date of the

Naturalization Certificate Signature, fingerprint and photograph

of the applicant

The data held by the Electors Federal Registry (RFE, by its acronym in Spanish), are strictly confidential and are protected by :

The Mexican Constitution Federal Code of Electoral Institutions and Procedures (COFIPE, by its acronym in

Spanish) Federal Law of Transparency and Access to Public Government Information Internal regulations on transparency of the Federal Electoral Institute

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Electoral Roll

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Update of the Electoral Roll

The Electoral Roll is updated every time a citizen makes any of the following procedures:

1. Citizens 18 years or more, applying for his voting card for the first time.2. Change of Address 3. Replacement 4. Data Correction

Essential processes in the update and maintenance of the electoral roll are:

1. Updates Campaigns2. Debugging programs3. Internal and external audits

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Actualization Campaigns

The INE performs two actualization campaigns annually :

Permanent Annual Campaign (CAP):

From January 16 to September 30.

It aims to provide citizens with the electoral registration service to

register in the electoral roll, get your voting card, notify changes of

address, correct or replace your credential data.

Intense Annual Campaign (CAI):

From October the 1st to January 15.

It aims to provide greater opportunities for citizens to do any procedure,

especially those citizens who have to change their credential for loss of

validity, for this care, more modules are installed and schedules are

extended.

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Citizen Service Modules

These are facilities implemented to the citizens to register in the Electoral Roll or to update their data. The facilities are:

Semi-fixed Modules

These are facilities that perform preset

tours to meet citizens in various localities. Generally serve rural or urban areas of low

concentration.

They represent 10% of all modules. 

Mobile Modules

These modules operate with the necessary and basic infrastructure for

citizen service to remote communities. Its travels

include several communities where they provide attention

for several days and then come back for credentials

deliveryThey represent 25%

of all modules.  

Modules

These are modules that can be found in specific locations. They usually

give attention to metropolitan areas with a large concentration.

Represent 65% of all modules.

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Integral Credentialing Cycle

Citizen identification

Paperwork capture

Document validation

CURP Generation and / or validation

Review of individual cases (duplicate, suspension of rights, irregular data, among others)

Processing procedures

Counterfeiting Prevention

Duplication

Diversification

Simulation

Making formats of the voting card

DistributionValidation document

deliveryVoter List

update

Institutional (Exercising the right to vote)

Bond with the society

Identification ways

Credential Data Validation

Citizen Authentication

CITIZEN SERVICE

PAPERWORK VALIDATION

ELECTORAL ROLL UPDATING   PRODUCTION

DISTRIBUTIONAND DELIVERY

SOCIETY SERVICE

COFIPE CONSTITUTION GUIDELINES PROCEDURES

ACTIVITIESINFORMATION

INDICATORS

TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS INFRASTRUCTURE

Information and  vote credencial security

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Biometric

The Use of Biometrics is fundamental to provide certainty to each citizen´s credential.

• On average, we receive 60,000 requested searches per day

• We have a capacity for 100,000 daily.

• The Comprehensive Solution ID Multibiometric (SIIM), consists in 131 servers and 22 workstations, with licensing for 74 million fingerprint records and 102 million records by facial recognition.

• It takes approximately 2 minutes do an fingerprint search in the entire database.

• The operational capacity of resolution is 11 thousand 900 services per day.

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Electoral Roll Update Credentialing Operation Flow CAI 2013-2014

60-80 thousand Credentials produced per day

40-60 thousand Transactions per day

909 Citizen Service

Modules operating

40-60 thousandCredentials delivered daily

40-60 thousand Searches for duplicate

records

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Debugging of the Electoral Roll

The objective of the debugging process, is to identify and exclude from the Electoral Roll database, records of all the citizens confirmed as duplicates, deceased and / or suspended from their political rights

Identification of the citizens who perform the registration

procedures for the Electoral Roll. Identification and elimination of duplicate records from the

Electoral Roll Exclusion by death Exclusion due to suspension of political and electoral

rights Exclusion due to cancelled procedures Exclusion because of the uneven in address and personal

data Exclusion of the records of the Voters Lists by effective loss

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Electoral roll, Review and Verification

The Electoral Roll is checked in an internal and external way in order to verify the quality of its information, its internal consistency, and its symmetry with legal and public records.

Internal• Political parties observations

• National verification sampling

External• Electoral Roll Technical Committee

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Promotion

Informing citizens about the registry services of the Institute, as well as deadlines or relevant information to the proceedings, requires dissemination at national and local level through several media.

The law states that the INE is the "... authority for the administration of the time corresponding to the state in radio and television aimed at the purposes of the Institute and other electoral authorities ..." and the exercise of the privileges granted to political parties.

In this regard, the Institute developed a strategy for the CAI 2013-2014, which included the following elements:

• 92, 052 messages and 138 radio interviews• 26,200 messages and 115 TV interviews• 218 insertions and 120 press interviews • 8,597 posters• 646, 246 flyers• 140 advertising blankets• 211 painted fences• 18,772 letters to addresses• 6,861 phone notifications• 5,828 hours of loudspeakers

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Federal Voter Photo-Id Card

The Federal Voter Photo-ID Card is the document required for citizens to exercise their vote.

The Federal Voter Photo-ID Card has served as a means of identification for Mexican citizens to prove their identity.

Since 1992, The Federal Electoral Institute has signed over 70 agreements with public, private and academic institutes in order to promote the use of the federal Voter Photo-ID Card as an official identification card.

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Requirements for obtaining the Voting Card:

Prove Mexican nationality, either with a Birth Certificate or a Letter / Certificate of Naturalization;

Verify the identity through a valid photo ID, or in case the person is picking up the Voting Card, identified with their fingerprints processed;

Indicate the location of his home, by a Proof of address updated to determine the electoral section to which it belongs and where the box is located to make the vote.

Federal Voter Photo-Id Card

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Federal Voter Photo-Id Card Evolution

• Authentic itself• Higher security

levels.• Reduced times

delivery.• Review and

analysis of the production and distribution diagram .

• Protection and resistance to FADSS.

• International norms fulfillment.

• Consolidate the federal Voter Photo-ID Card as citizens identity identification

• Bond with the society (identification and authentication services).

1976

1981

1991

Type “A”1992 to

Sept. 2001

Type “B”Oct. 2001 toSept. 2008

New CPV model Type “D” From Nov. 2013

Type “E”-INE From Jul. 2014

Type “C”Since

5 Sept. 2008

• Digital Photography.

• Centralized Diagram

• Improved Service Levels

• Standardizes on dimensions.

• Snapshot.• Semi-

centralized diagram.• Photograph

incorporated when the citizen collect the CPV in MAC.• High cost.• Accepted as

identity identification.

• Transition format.

• Decentralized diagram.• Mistrust.• Low security

level.

• Digital Photography.

• Centralized Diagram.

• Higher production capacity.

• Strengthen security levels.

• CUPR incorporated.

• Strengthen fraud and alteration protection.

Federal Electoral Institute

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Federal Voter Photo-Id Card

Quick Response Code (QR) is added for greater links with the citizen. [15]

Machine Readable Zone that promotes the use of the voting card as a travel document is added. [16]

OCR Number now integrates Readable Zone on the right block of the first line. [17] 20