Articles 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 52, 54, 55, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 73, 74, 75, 79, 80, 81, 82, 85, 88, 93, 95, 96, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 105, 111, 112, 113, 114, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123, 125, 126, 127, 129, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 161, 168, 176, 177, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 187,(*), 189, 191, 193, and 194 of the Electoral Code are reformed. The texts shall be as follows:
(*)(NOTE: Article 188, also reformed here, is omitted due to an error.)
"Article 4.- Valid exercise of suffrage Citizens registered in the National Electoral Roll may exercise the right to suffrage only before an Electoral Board, by presenting their identity card and in accordance with the provisions of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal." "Article 8.- Impediments to being an Alderman (Regidor) or District Representative (Síndico) No one may be elected Alderman (Regidor) or District Representative (Síndico), nor register their candidacy for these positions:
- a)Anyone who falls under any of the cases of impediment indicated in the previous article; b) Anyone who exercises jurisdiction or public authority extending to an entire district; c) Anyone who falls under any of the cases of impediment provided for in the Municipal Code.
These incompatibilities shall affect those who, within the six months prior to the date of the elections, held the indicated positions." "Article 10.- Form and time for establishing the Administrative Territorial Division The Administrative Territorial Division shall apply to the electoral process. For this purpose, the Executive Branch must formulate and publish it at least twelve months before the day designated for the election of the President and Vice Presidents of the Republic. It must list in detail the provinces, cantons, districts, hamlets or villages, using for their numbering the order of the laws that created them; it must also express, in an attached table, the population of each, according to census data and the most recent calculations of the General Directorate of Statistics and Censuses.
The Supreme Electoral Tribunal is empowered to divide an administrative district into two or more electoral districts, thereby seeking the greatest convenience for voters in casting their votes. However, it may not use this power in the eight months prior to elections." "Article 12.- Seats of the electoral bodies The seat of the electoral bodies shall be:
- a)For the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and the Civil Registry, the capital of the Republic; b) For the Cantonal Boards, the seat of the corresponding canton; c) For the Polling Stations (Juntas Receptoras), the one assigned to each by the Civil Registry, when distributing voters according to Article 25." "Article 14.- Impediments to being a member of electoral bodies The following may not be members of the electoral bodies:
- a)The officials and employees referred to in the second paragraph of Article 88, except for the Magistrates and officials of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal and the Civil Registry; b) In the same body, siblings, ascendants, or descendants up to the third degree of consanguinity or affinity; c) In the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, siblings, ascendants, or descendants up to the third degree of consanguinity or affinity, of the candidates whose declaration of election must be made by said Tribunal. However, if once the Tribunal is already formed, a candidacy arises that produces the mentioned incompatibility, from that very moment the affected serving member must recuse themselves from intervening in the electoral process, without prejudice to their right to their salary. In the case of the titular Magistrates of the Tribunal, the impediment shall cease upon the declaration of election.