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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Electoral Roll and Voters Lists
To February 3rd, 2014
Voters List contains the citizens who
have their valid Voter Photo-ID
Card, that may cast their vote on
the election day.
10
Male
48.50%
8
6
Female
51.50%
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2
Voters List Coverage
in relationship with the
Electoral Roll: 94.5%
65 +
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
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0
TOTAL : 82,623,200
Millions
The Electoral Roll is the data
base containing the Mexican
citizens basic information, of
those who applied for the
federal Voter Photo-ID Card.
Millions
TOTAL : 87,430,429
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15
Male
48.09%
10
Female
51.91%
5
65 +
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
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Foreign Residents Voters List for
the scrutiny and counting: 59,051
0
Citizens
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87,086,039
82,127,092
87,430,429
82,623,200
86,310,849
80,713,974
84,464,713
79,454,802
77,815,606
77,481,874
71,730,868
71,350,976
59,584,542
58,782,737
65,337,047
64,710,596
53,022,198
52,208,966
47,480,159
45,729,053
39,239,107
36,675,367
Electoral Roll and
Voters List Evolution
1991 1994 1997 2000 2003 2006 2009 2012 2013 2014 2015
Electoral Roll
Voters List
Year
Electoral
Roll
Voters
List
% 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 87,086,039
82,127,092
94.31
20156 87,430,429
82,623,200
94.50
Source: Memoirs of the Federal Electoral Process
1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003 y 2006.
2 Up to July 5, 2009. SIIRFE-SIE
3 Up to July 1st, 2012. SIIRFE-SIE
4 Up to December 27, 2013. SIIRFE-SIE
5 Up to December 26, 2014. SIIRFE-SIE
6 Up to February 03, 2015. SIIRFE-SIE
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Electoral Roll
In the Electoral Roll, the following data are registered:
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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.
2.
3.
4.
Citizens 18 years or more, applying for his voting card for the first time.
Change of Address
Replacement
Data Correction
Essential processes in the update and maintenance of the electoral roll are:
1.
2.
3.
Updates Campaigns
Debugging programs
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:
Modules
Semi-fixed Modules
Mobile Modules
These are modules that
can be found in specific
locations. They usually
give attention to
metropolitan areas with
a large concentration.
These are facilities that
perform preset tours to
meet citizens in various
localities. Generally
serve rural or urban
areas of low
concentration.
Represent 65% of all
modules.
They represent 10% of all
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
delivery
They represent 25%
of all modules.
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Integral Credentialing Cycle
Information and vote credencial security
CITIZEN
SERVICE
Citizen
identification
Paperwork
capture
Document
validation
COFIPE
CONSTITUTION
PAPERWORK
VALIDATION
ELECTORAL ROLL
UPDATING
GUIDELINES
DISTRIBUTION
AND DELIVERY
Distribution
Duplication
Processing
procedures
Validation
document
delivery
Diversification
Voter List
update
Simulation
Making
formats of the
voting card
PROCEDURES
SOCIETY
SERVICE
Institutional
(Exercising the
right to vote)
Counterfeiting
Prevention
CURP
Generation and
/ or validation
Review of
individual cases
(duplicate,
suspension of
rights, irregular
data, among
others)
PRODUCTION
Bond with the
society
Identification
ways
Credential
Data
Validation
Citizen
Authentication
ACTIVITIES
INDICATORS
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS INFRASTRUCTURE
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Biometric
The Use of Biometrics is fundamental to provide certainty to
each citizen´s credential.
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On average, we receive 60,000 requested searches per
day
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We have a capacity for 100,000 daily.
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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.
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It takes approximately 2 minutes do an fingerprint search
in the entire database.
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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
40-60 thousand
40-60 thousand
Transactions per day
Searches for duplicate
records
60-80 thousand
Credentials produced per
day
909
Citizen Service
Modules
operating
40-60 thousand
Credentials delivered
daily
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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
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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:
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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
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The Federal Voter Photo-ID Card is the document required for citizens to exercise
their vote.
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The Federal Voter Photo-ID Card has served as a means of identification for Mexican
citizens to prove their identity.
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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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Federal Voter Photo-Id Card
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.
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Federal Voter Photo-Id Card Evolution
New CPV model
Type “D” From Nov. 2013
Type “E”-INE From Jul. 2014
Type “C”
Federal Electoral Institute
Since
5 Sept. 2008
Type “B”
Oct. 2001 to
Sept. 2008
Type “A”
1992 to
Sept. 2001
1991
1981
1976
• Transition
format.
• Decentralized
diagram.
• Mistrust.
• Low security
level.
• Snapshot.
• Semicentralized
diagram.
• Photograph
incorporated
when the citizen
collect the CPV
in MAC.
• High cost.
• Accepted as
identity
identification.
• Digital
Photography.
• Centralized
Diagram
• Improved
Service Levels
• Standardizes on
dimensions.
• Digital
Photography.
• Centralized
Diagram.
• Higher
production
capacity.
• Strengthen
security levels.
• CUPR
incorporated.
• Strengthen fraud
and alteration
protection.
• 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 PhotoID Card as citizens
identity
identification
• Bond with the
society
(identification and
authentication
services).
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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]
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