Article 401 Federal Criminal Code

For the purposes of this Chapter, the following is understood as:

I.Public Officials, the persons who fall within the cases established by article 212 of this Code.

The officials and employees of the State and Municipal Public Administration shall also be understood as Public Officials;

II.Electoral officials, those who in the terms of the federal electoral legislation make up the organs that perform electoral functions;

III.Party officials, the leaders of the national political parties and of the political groups, and their representatives before the electoral organs, in the terms of the federal electoral legislation;

IV.Candidates, the citizens formally registered as such by the competent authority;

V.Public electoral documents, the records of the electoral day, those relative to the scrutiny and computation of each one of the elections, electoral packages and polling station files, the circumstantial records of the computation sessions of the local and district councils, and those of the computations of plurinominal circumscription and, in general all the documents and records issued in the exercise of their functions by the organs of the Federal Electoral Institute; and

VI.Electoral materials, the physical elements, such as ballot boxes, screens or modular elements for the casting of the vote, credential markers, indelible liquid, office supplies and other equipment authorized for their use in the polling stations during the electoral day.