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Modify Laws N ° 346, 17.671, 19.945, 23.298, 25.432, 26.215 And 26.571.

Original Language Title: Modifícanse Leyes N° 346, 17.671, 19.945, 23.298, 25.432, 26.215 y 26.571.

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ARGENTINE CITIZENSHIP LAW

Law 26,774

Amendments Nos 346, 17,671, 19,945, 23.298, 25.432, 26.215 and 26.571. Sanctioned: October 31, 2012. Enacted: November 1, 2012.

The Senate and Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation, meeting in Congress, etc., are sanctioned by law:

ARTICLE 1-Amend Article 7 of Law 346, which shall be worded as follows:

Article 7 °: Argentines who have been in the age of sixteen (16) years enjoy all political rights under the Constitution and the laws of the Republic.

ARTICLE 2-Amend point (b) of Article 10 and Article 10a of Law 17,671, which shall be worded as follows:

(b) When the person is 14 (14) years of age, the opportunity in which all the data will be completed and

background, including a new photograph. At this stage of update, which will add up to the previous

the registration and registration, the corresponding national identity document shall be delivered;

Article 10a: In the opportunity of the first update of the identification data, the presentation of the certificate certifying the current level of education, extended by competent authority, shall be required. When the person is dealt with the planned update at fourteen (14) years of age, the certificate of approval of the Basic General Education, or the current education accreditation, will be requested.

ARTICLE 3-Amend Articles 1 °, 6 °, 12, 15, 18, 25, 26, 28, 29, 33, 35, 41, 43, 61, 68, 72, 73, 75, 75a, 86, 87, 88, 89, 92, 94, 95, 112, 125, 127 and 137 of Law 19,945, which shall be worded as follows:

Article 1: The native Argentines are voters, and by option, from the sixteen (16) years of age, and the naturalized Argentinians, from the eighteen (18) years of age, who do not have any of the disqualifications provided for in this law.

Article 6: Immunity of the Elector. No authority shall be entitled to reduce the voter from 24 hours before the election to the closing of the commission, except for the case of

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A criminal offence or when there is a warrant issued by a competent judge. Outside of these cases, you will not be disturbed in the transit from your home to the place where the person is installed, nor can you be disturbed in the performance of your duties.

Article 12: Duty to vote. Every voter has a duty to vote in the national election held in his district.

They are exempted from that obligation:

a) Judges and their auxiliaries who, by the rule of this law, must attend their offices and keep them open

during the duration of the act;

(b) The day of the election is more than five hundred (500) kilometers from the place where they must

to vote and to justify that the departure is based on reasonable grounds.

Such voters will present themselves on the day of the election to the nearest police authority, which will extend

written certification attesting to the appearance;

(c) the patients who are ill or have been prevented by force majeure, sufficiently proven, to prevent them from attending

act. These causes must be justified in the first place by doctors of the health service

national; failing that by official, provincial or municipal doctors, and in the absence of such

Private doctors.

The official reference professionals shall be obliged to reply, on the day of the commission, to the

of the sick or disabled voter, and must attend his/her address to verify these circumstances and

make delivery of the relevant certificate;

(d) the staff of public service bodies and undertakings which for reasons relating to their compliance

they must perform tasks that prevent them from attending the commission during their development. In that case the employer or his/her

Legal representative shall communicate to the Ministry of the Interior and Transport the respective payroll with ten (10)

days ahead of the date of the election, by issuing, separately, the relevant certification.

The falsehood in the certifications here provided will make it possible for those who have granted them of the penalties

established in Article 292 of the Criminal Code. The exemptions set out in this Article are of a

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optional for the elector.

Article 15: National Register of Electors. The National Register of Electors is unique and contains the following sub-registers:

1. Of voters per district;

2. Disabled and excluded voters;

3. Of voters resident abroad;

4. Of private voters of freedom.

The National Register of Electors consists of computerized records and printed documentary support. The

Computerised registration must contain, for each voter the following data: surname and names, sex, place

and date of birth, domicile, profession, type and number of civic document, specifying that

copy is treated, date of identification and filiatory data. The condition of absent shall be recorded.

enforced disappearance in the cases in which it corresponds. The application authority determines in which form it is

incorporate the fingerprints, photographs and signatures of the voters. Printed documentary support must

contain in addition to the data set for the computerised record, fingerprints and signature

The original of the voter, and the photograph.

It is up to the national electoral justice to update the profession of the electors.

Article 18: Registration of violators of the duty to vote. The National Electoral Chamber shall keep a record of the violators of the duty to vote as set out in Article 12. After each national election, a list shall be drawn up by district, with the name, last name and registration of the voters over eighteen (18) years and under seventy (70) years of age of those who are not on record of the vote, will bring to the attention of the Executive Branch. The provincial governments and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires will be able to ask the House for the list corresponding to the voters in their district.

Article 25: Of the provisional rolls. The National Register of Electors and the sub-registers of voters in all districts have a public character, with the corresponding legal provisions of privacy, to be subject to corrections by registered voters. them. The provisional rolls are composed of the data of the subregisters of voters by district, including the recorded news up to one hundred and eighty (180) days before each general election, as well as the people who fulfill sixteen (16) years of age until the same day of the commission. The

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Provisional voter rolls shall contain the following information: number and class of civic document, surname, name and address of the registered voters. They must be sorted by district and section.

The electoral courts may require the collaboration of the National Electoral Directorate of the Ministry of

Interior and Transport for the printing of provisional lists and will monitor and inspect all the

printing process.

Article 26: Dissemination of provisional rolls. The National Electoral Chamber shall arrange for the publication of provisional rolls and of residents abroad ten (10) days after the date of closure of the registration for each election, on its website and/or by other means it considers appropriate, with the corresponding legal provisions of privacy, to be subject to corrections by the registered voters in it. The form should be given to publicity for possible complaints and complaints, as well as the consultations to the provisional list.

Article 28: Disposal of voters. Procedure. In the same period any elector or political party shall have the right to request, to the federal court with electoral competence, that the deceased voters be removed or crossed out, those registered more than once or those who are included in the inabilities set forth in this law. On summary verification of the facts to be invoked and of the hearing to be granted to the contested constituent, the judges shall, in the event of an action, decide. If they do so, they will inform the National Electoral Chamber that they will be able to register the disqualification in the National Register of Electors. As for the deceased or registered more than once, both computer and paper media will be deleted.

The challenge may take cognizance of subsequent action and shall be notified in all cases.

of the final decision, but will not have a participation in the substantiation of the information it will deal with

with a view to the tax agent.

Article 29: Final Register. The proposed provisional standards shall be the final electoral roll for the primary and general elections, which shall be printed thirty (30) days before the date of the primary election in accordance with the the rules laid down in Article 31.

The register shall be ordered according to the territorial demarcations, the corresponding electoral tables

and in alphabetical order by last name.

They shall make up the final table for the committee, the order number of the constituent, a code of

individualization that allows the automated reading of each of the electors, the data that for the

Provisional rolls require this law and a space for signature.

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Article 33: Errors or omissions. Deadlines for subsating them. The electors shall be entitled to request, up to twenty (20) days before the act, that the errors and omissions in the register be remedied. This may be done in person or by registered letter with a notice of receipt, free of charge, and the judges shall take note of the rectifications and inscriptions to which they have taken place in the specimens of the court, and in which they must submit for election to the chair of the committee.

They will not give direct orders for the inclusion of voters in the copies already sent to the presidents of

table.

The complaints authorizing this article will be limited to the errata amendment.

omissions. The complaints and challenges referred to in Articles 27 and 28 shall not be admissible.

of this law, which will have to be formulated in the opportunities mentioned there.

Article 35: Communication of civil and military authorities regarding disabled voters. The civil and military authorities must formalize, ninety (90) days before each election by means of communication to the electoral judges the reference of the electors disabled by virtue of the requirements of Article 3 ° and that they are found under his or her orders or custody or registered in the records of his or her office.

Failure to comply with the obligations laid down in this Article, 30 (30) days before

the time limit set in them and without any need for any requirement, will make the officials responsible

in serious administrative misconduct. The electoral judges shall communicate the fact to the respective superiors

(a) the hierarchy of the following:

If the authorities referred to here do not have their orders or custody under their orders

in the prescription of Article 3, they shall also inform the relevant judges within the time limit referred to in Article 3.

the first of them.

Article 41: Electoral tables. Each circuit will be divided into tables, which will be constituted with up to three hundred and fifty (350) registered voters, grouped in alphabetical order.

If such a grouping of electors were held below sixty (60), it shall be incorporated into the

a table that the judge determines. If I subtract a fraction of sixty (60) or more, it will be formed with the same

election table. The electoral judges can set up electoral tables, in those circuits whose

population centres are separated by long distances or geographical accidents which make it difficult to

of the voters to the committee, grouping the electors considering the proximity of their

addresses and in alphabetical order.

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Electors domiciled within each circuit shall be ordered alphabetically. Once this is done

The operation shall be grouped together at electoral tables, in accordance with the provisions of the present

Article.

Article 43: Duties and duties. They have the following powers and duties, without prejudice to the provisions of Law 19.108 and regulations for national justice:

1. To propose to the persons who are to be in the position of secretary, prosecretary, and other jobs.

2. Apply disciplinary sanctions, including arrest of up to fifteen (15) days, to whom they incur

with respect to his authority or investiture or to that of other officials of the Electoral Secretariat, or

clog your normal exercise.

3. Impose disciplinary sanctions against the secretary, prosecretary or employees subject to the provisions of the

a regulation for national justice. In addition, in severe cases, they may request removal from the

National Electoral Chamber.

4. Receive and attend to the complaints filed by any voter and by the parties ' proxies

policy, on the data recorded in the recorded records.

5. To appoint ad-hoc auxiliaries, for the performance of electoral tasks, to national officials,

provincial or municipal. Designations shall be deemed to be public charge.

6. To fulfill the other functions that this law specifically entrusts them.

Article 61: Judicial resolution. Within the five (5) days subsequent the judge will dictate a resolution, with concrete and precise expression of the facts that substantiate it, with respect to the quality of the candidates. It will be appealable within forty-eight (48) hours before the National Electoral Chamber, which will resolve within three (3) days by decision.

If by firm judgment it is established that some candidate does not meet the necessary qualities will be run

order of the list of the holders and shall be completed with the first alternate, the order of

-the political party to which it belongs may register another alternate at the last place of the list in the

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Forty-eight (48) hours to count on that resolution. In the same way, the

new substitutions.

In the event of resignation, death or incapacity, the presidential candidate will be replaced.

for the candidate for vice-president. In the case of the vice-president's vacancy, the political grouping

registered, you must proceed to your replacement in the term of three (3) days. Such designation should be a

elector who has participated in the primary election as a candidate for the list in which it was produced

the vacancy.

All the decisions shall be notified by telegram, which shall be signed after the forties and

eight (48) hours of notification.

The official list of candidates will be communicated by the Judge to the Electoral Board within twenty-four months.

(24) hours of firm decision, or immediately of the same decision as the case.

Article 68: Members of the armed forces. Limitations of his performance during the electoral act. The heads or officers of the armed forces and national, provincial, territorial and municipal police authorities will not be able to lead groups of voters during the election, nor to assert the influence of their charges to coartar freedom. to vote or to hold meetings for the purpose of influencing the acts of the State.

Retired armed forces personnel, whatever their hierarchy, are barred from attending the event.

wearing his uniform.

The personnel of the armed forces and the security forces in activity have the right to participate in the elections.

uniform and carrying their regulatory weapons.

Article 72: Authorities at the bureau. Priority shall be given to the appointment of the bureau authorities to the electors who result from a random selection by means of computer, in which their degree of instruction and age must be taken into account, to the electors who have been trained. to this effect and then to the registered in the Public Registry of Postulants to the Authorities of the Bureau.

Each electoral bureau shall have as the sole authority an official who shall act with the title of president. I know

appoint also an alternate, who will assist the president and replace him in the cases that this law

determines.

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In case of the election of President and Vice President of the Nation, the authorities of the

designated for the first round will also fulfill that function in case the second one is carried out

Back.

Voters who have served as bureau authorities will receive compensation

consisting of a fixed sum in the concept of viatic.

Sixty (60) days before the date fixed for the commission, the Ministry of the Interior and Transport shall determine

the sum to be settled in the view of the viatic, laying down the procedure for payment which is

carry out within sixty (60) days of the commission, informing the federal judge of the decision

with electoral competence of each district. If the second round is made, both

compensation and will be cancelled within the same period.

Article 73: Requirements. The following qualities shall be met by the presidents and alternates:

1. Be a skilled elector.

2. To have between eighteen (18) and seventy (70) years of age.

3. Reside in the electoral section where it should be performed.

4. Know how to read and write.

For the purposes of verifying the concurrence of these requirements, the Electoral Boards are entitled to

request from the relevant authorities the data and background they deem necessary.

Article 75: Designation of the authorities. The federal court with electoral competence shall appoint the presidents and alternates for each bureau, with a prior notice of no less than thirty (30) days before the date of the primary elections and shall ratify such a designation for the general elections.

The bureau authorities shall be on the list of the bureau for which they are appointed.

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The notification of designation shall be made by the mail of the Nation or through the services

special communication to the security agencies, whether national or provincial.

(a) The excusement of those who are appointed shall be made within three (3) days of notification and

only duly justified reasons for disease or force majeure may be invoked.

After this period, only those who will be the subject of overlieutenants may be excused.

special consideration by the Board;

b) It is a cause of exception to perform functions of organization and/or direction of a political party and/or

be a candidate. It shall be certified by the authorities of the respective party;

(c) For the purposes of justification by the presidents or alternate members of the bureau of the disease preventing them from

In the event of the election, only certificates issued by health doctors shall be valid.

national, provincial or municipal, in that order. In the absence of the professionals indicated, the certification

may be extended by a particular physician, the Board being able to verify the accuracy of the

Special powers. If falsehood is found, the antecedents shall pass to the respective tax agent to the

Article 132 of the Treaty.

Article 75a: Registration of Bureau Authorities. The national electoral justice system will create a Public Registry of Postulants to the Mesa Authorities in all the districts, which will operate permanently. Those voters who wish to register and comply with the requirements of Article 73 may do so in the electoral courts of the district in which they are registered, by means of the information provided by the electoral system. or in the mail delegations where there will be forms to the effect.

The electoral justice will carry out the training of board authorities, in person or virtual form, and the National Electoral Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior and Transport must provide the necessary support.

Article 86: Where and how voters can vote. Voters may vote only at the voting table in whose list they are seated and with the enabling civic document. The president shall verify whether the voter to whom the civic document belongs is on the electoral roll of the table.

For this purpose it shall collate if the personal data entered in the register are the same as the same indications

contained in that document. When by mistake of printing any of the mentions of the register

exactly match that of your document, the president will not be able to prevent the voter's vote if it exists

match in the other constances. In these cases the differences in the column of

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observations.

1. If the name of the voter was not exactly the same as the name of the voter's document

civic, the president shall admit the vote whenever, duly examined the number of that document,

year of birth, domicile, etc., were matched with those of the register.

2. No vote shall be prevented either:

(a) Where the name is accurately and the discrepancy is found to be about some or some data relating to the civic document (address, document class, etc.);

(b) When the voter's photograph is missing from the document, provided that he/she satisfactorily answers to the detailed questioning of the president about the personal data and any other circumstances that he/she has in store for the proper identification;

(c) the voter who appears on the register with a duplicate, triplicate, and so on, and is present with the national identity card;

(d) The voter whose document contains annotations of official institutions or bodies, blood group, etc.

3. The vote shall not be accepted:

(a) If the voter exhibits a civic document prior to the one in the register;

(b) The voter who is present with a registration book or a civic book and is included in the register with a national identity card.

4. The President shall state in the 'observations' column of the list of deficiencies referred to in the preceding provisions.

Article 87: Inadmissibility of vote. No authority, nor even the electoral judge, may order the president of the bureau to admit the vote of an elector who is not registered in the electoral rolls.

Article 88: Right of voter to vote. Anyone who appears on the register and exhibits his civic document has the right to vote and no one can question him in the act of suffrage. The presidents will not accept any challenge that melts in the voter's inability to appear on the electoral roll.

It is excluded from the same person who is crossed out with red ink on the table roll, not being able to

This is the case for casting the vote even though it will be wrong.

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Article 89: Verification of the identity of the voter. Since the civic document presented belongs to the same voter registered as an elector, the president will proceed to verify the identity of the comparator with the respective indications of the document, hearing about the the prosecutors of the parties.

Article 92: Procedure in case of impeachment. In the event of a challenge, the president shall record it in the relevant envelope. You will immediately enter the name, last name, number and class of civic document and year of birth, and take the digit print of the contested voter on the respective form, which will be signed by the president and by the impeachments. If any of these refuse the president, he will go on record, being able to do so under the signature of some or some of the voters present. You will then place this form within the above mentioned envelope, which will deliver open to the voter along with the envelope to cast the vote and invite you to move to the dark room. The voter may not withdraw from the above form; if he does so it shall constitute sufficient proof of truth of the challenge, unless otherwise accredited.

The refusal of the tax or the prosecutors to contest the form will import the withdrawal and annulment of the challenge; but it will be enough for one only to sign that it is a subsidiary.

After the contested comparison has suffraged, if the president of the committee considers that the impeachment is founded, he is entitled to order that he be arrested in his order. This arrest may be lifted only in the event that the person who is impeached is granted pecuniary bail or sufficient staff in the president's judgment, which guarantees his appearance before the judges.

The pecuniary bail will be a hundred and fifty ($150) of which the president will give receipt. The amount of the bond and the copy of the receipt will be given to the employee of the official postal service along with the electoral documentation after the commission has finished and will be sent by the latter to the Electoral Secretariat of the district.

The staff will be granted by a known and responsible neighbor who in writing commits to present the entrench or to pay that amount in the event that the impeached will not be presented to the electoral judge when he is summoned by this one.

The envelope with the voter's vote, together with the form containing their digital printing and other references already mentioned, as well as the amount of the pecuniary bond or the written instrument of the personal bond, will be placed in the envelope which initially refers to the first paragraph of this article.

The elector who, by order of the president of the bureau, is detained for being considered to be founded, will immediately be made available to the Electoral Board, and the president, when he sends the record, will communicate it to him. record the place where it will remain.

Article 94: Issue of vote. Introduced in the dark room and closed at the door, the elector will place on his ballot on his ballot and return immediately to the table. The closed envelope will be deposited by the voter in the ballot box. The president, on his own initiative or at the request of the prosecutors, will be able to order it to be verified whether the envelope the voter brings is the same as he delivered. If national, provincial and/or municipal elections are held together, a single envelope will be used.

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to deposit all the ballots.

Blind voters or with a permanent or temporary disability or physical condition which prevents, restricts or hinders the exercise of the vote may be supported by the president of the bureau or a person of his/her choice, who duly accredits his/her identity, in the terms of the regulation that is issued. This circumstance shall be settled on the list of the table and on the record of the table, including the data of the voter and the person who attends the table. No person, with the exception of the bureau president, may attend more than one voter in the same election.

Article 95: Constancy of vote. The president will proceed to point out in the voter rolls of the voting table that the elector cast the vote, in the light of the prosecutors and the voter himself. The voter shall also be given a record of the vote that will contain the following data: date and type of election, full name and surname, number of D.N.I. of the voter and nomenclature of the table, which will be signed by the President at the place of effect. The format of such constancy shall be established in the regulations. Such constancy shall be sufficient for the purposes referred to in Articles 8, 125 and 127 second subparagraph.

Article 112: Procedure for scrutiny. After the deadline of Article 110, the National Electoral Board will carry out the final scrutiny, which must be completed in the shortest possible time. To this effect, the necessary days and hours will be enabled for the task to have no interruption. In the case of the election of the President and Vice President of the Nation, he will do so within a period of no more than ten (10) days.

The final scrutiny shall, in the consideration of each table, be adjusted to the examination of the respective minutes for

verify:

1. If there are indications that it has been adulterated.

2. If you have no substantial defects in shape.

3. If accompanied by the other minutes and documents which the president has received or produced in connection with the electoral act and the scrutiny.

4. If you admit or reject the protests.

5. If the number of electors that they cast according to the minutes coincides with the number of envelopes submitted by the President of the Bureau, verification that will only be carried out in the event that the party denounces a political party acting in the election.

6. If the contested votes exist, they shall consider them to determine their validity or nullity, in conjunction with the electoral section.

The pre-established verifications shall be limited to carrying out the arithmetical operations of the results recorded in the minutes, except in the case of a complaint by any political party acting in the election.

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Article 125: Non-voting. A fine of fifty ($50) to pesos five hundred ($500) will be imposed on the elector over eighteen (18) years and under seventy (70) years of age that I will stop casting his vote and will not be justified before the national electoral justice in the sixties. (60) days of the respective election. Where the non-emission by any of the causals provided for in Article 12 is credited, a record of the effect shall be given. The offender included in the Register of Offenders to the duty of voting set out in Article 18 may not be appointed to perform public functions or jobs for three (3) years from the election. The district judge, if not the address of the offender to the date provided for in Article 25, shall communicate the justification or payment of the fine to the electoral judge where the voter was registered.

It will be sufficient for the fine to be applied, the objective finding of the omission not justified. The proceedings and the judgments which arise in respect of the electors who do not consent to the application of the fine may include an offender or a group of offenders. The resolutions will be appealed to the national electoral justice.

Article 127: Constancy of administrative justification. Communication. The heads of the national, provincial, or municipal bodies of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires or municipal authorities shall issue a record, according to the model established by the regulations, which establishes the reason for the omission of the suffrage of the subordinates, clarifying when the same has been caused by acts of service by legal disposition, being sufficient constancy to have it as non-infringer.

The employees of the national public administration, provincial, of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires or municipal, who are greater than eighteen (18) years and under seventy (70) years of age, will present to their immediate superiors the constancy of voting, the day after the election, to allow the audit of the performance of your duty to vote. If they do not do so, they will be suspended for up to six (6) months and in case of recidivism, they will be able to reach the guarantee.

The bosses will in turn give an account to their superiors, in writing and immediately, of the omissions in which their subordinates have incurred. The omission or inaccuracy in such communications will also be sanctioned with suspension of up to six (6) months.

From the constances they will issue, they will give the national electoral justice within ten (10) days of a national election. These communications will have to establish the name of the employee, last address listed in his document, class, constituency, section, circuit and table number on which he was to vote and cause for which he did not.

Article 137: Multiple subscriptions or with adulterated documents. False address. Improper retention of civic documents. Prison shall be imposed from six (6) months to three (3) years, if it is not a more severely criminal offence, to the voter who will register more than once, or to do so with apocryphal documents, nullified or otherwise, or to report false domicile.

Those who improperly withhold civic documents from third parties shall be liable for the same penalty.

ARTICLE 4 °-Amend Articles 1 °, 2 °, 3 °, 6 °, 20, 23 and 25c of Law 23.298, which shall be drawn up as follows:

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Article 1: Constituents are guaranteed the right of political association to be grouped in democratic political parties.

Groupings are guaranteed the right to their constitution, organization, self-government and free functioning as a political party, as well as the right to obtain the legal personality-political to act in one, several or all of them. electoral districts, or as party confederation, in accordance with the provisions and requirements laid down by this law.

Article 2: The parties are instruments necessary for the formulation and implementation of national policy. It is up to them, exclusively, to nominate candidates for elective public office.

Applications from non-affiliated voters may be submitted by the parties provided that such possibility is accepted in their organic letters.

Article 3: The existence of the parties requires the following substantial conditions:

a) Group of voters, united by a permanent political link;

(b) a stable and functioning organization governed by the organic charter, in accordance with the internal democratic method, by means of periodic elections of the authorities and party organizations, in the form established by each party, respecting the minimum percentage by sex established in law 24,012 and its regulatory decrees;

c) Judicial recognition of their legal personality as a party, which implies their registration in the corresponding public register.

Article 6: It is for the Federal Justice with electoral competence, in addition to the jurisdiction and jurisdiction conferred upon it by the respective organic law, the comptroller of the effective validity of the rights, attributes, powers, guarantees and obligations, as well as that of the records that this and other legal provisions govern with respect to the parties their authorities, candidates, affiliates and constituents in general.

Article 20: For the purposes of this law, the voter's address is the last recorded in the registration book, civic book or national identity card.

Article 23: To join a party requires:

a) Be registered in the electoral sub-register of the district in which the affiliation is requested;

(b) Check the identity with the registration book, civic book or national identity card;

(c) to present, in the fourfold, an application form containing: name and address, registration, class, marital status, profession or trade and the digital signature or printing, the authenticity of which must be certified in

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(a) the right to vote for a decision by the competent public official or by the party authority to determine the executive bodies, whose payroll must be referred to the Federal Justice with electoral competence; the affiliation may also be requested by intermediate of the post office of the place of the address, in which case the head of the same shall certify the authenticity of the signature or digital printing.

The application forms shall be supplied without charge by the Ministry of the Interior and Transport to the parties recognised or in training which require them, without prejudice to their preparation for the same and their duties, in accordance with the model made by the Ministry of Interior and Transport. Ministry of the Interior and Transport respecting measure, quality of the material and other characteristics.

Article 25c: Voters may formalize their waiver by telegram free of charge or personally to the appropriate district election secretariat. To this end, a free telegram service for the sender is established throughout the territory of the Argentine Republic, in order to effect the resignations of political parties. The expense of this service will be charged, through the system without payment, to the account of the Ministry of the Interior and Transport. The federal court with electoral competence once notified of the waiver of an affiliation, must give it discharge and communicate it to the party to which it has resigned.

ARTICLE 5-Amend Articles 3, 4 and 6 of Law 25,432, which shall be worded as follows:

Article 3 °: In every project subject to binding popular consultation, the vote of the electorate in the terms of Law 19,945 will be mandatory.

Article 4 °: All binding popular consultation shall be valid and effective when it has cast its vote not less than thirty-five percent (35%) of the registered voters on the national electoral register.

Article 6 °: It may be submitted to a non-binding popular consultation, any matter of general interest to the Nation, with the exception of those bills whose sanction procedure is especially governed by the National Constitution, by the determination of the house of origin or by the requirement of a qualified majority for approval. In this kind of consultation the electorate vote will not be compulsory.

ARTICLE 6-Amend Articles 18 and 27 of Law 26.215, which shall be worded as follows:

Article 18: Financial administration. The party must appoint one (1) incumbent treasurer and one (1) alternate, or their equivalents according to their organic charter, older, with domicile in the corresponding district, owing both to be affiliated. The designations with the respective data of identity and profession must be communicated to the federal judge with corresponding electoral competence and to the National Electoral Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior and Transport.

Article 27: Responsible. Prior to the start of the electoral campaign, political groupings, which are candidates for elective public office, must designate two (2) economic-financial decision-makers, who meet the requirements laid down in Article 18 of the Finance Law of the Political Parties, 26.215, who will be jointly and severally responsible with the treasurer, for the

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compliance with applicable laws, regulations and techniques. The designations must be communicated to the federal judge with corresponding electoral competence, and to the Ministry of the Interior and Transportation.

ARTICLE 7-Amend Article 23 of Law 26,571, which shall be worded as follows:

Article 23: All electors must vote in the primary elections, according to the register of voters established by the national electoral justice system.

For the primary elections, the same register shall be used as for the general election in which the persons who meet sixteen (16) years of age shall be used until the day of the general election.

The voter will vote in the same place in the two (2) elections, except for exceptional reasons or force majeure, which will be duly reported by the mass media.

Article 8 °-The national executive branch shall implement a dissemination and documentation campaign aimed at young people of fourteen (14) years of age processing the renewal of the National Identity Document in the terms of Article 10 (b) of Law 17,671, prior to the date of closure of the provisional rolls provided for in Article 25 of Law 19,945.

Article 9 °-Invite the provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires to adhere to the terms of this law.

ARTICLE 10. -Contact the national executive branch.

GIVEN IN THE SESSION HALL OF THE ARGENTINE CONGRESS, IN BUENOS AIRES, AT THE THIRTIES

AND A DAY OF THE MONTH OF OCTOBER OF THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND TWELVE.

-REGISTERED UNDER NO 26,774-

BELOVED BOUDOU. -JULIAN A. DOMINGUEZ. -Juan H. Estrada. -Gervasio Bozzano.

Date of publication: 02/11/2012

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