Article 403 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE TWENTY-FOURTH. Electoral Crimes and in matters of the National Registry of Citizens · SOLE CHAPTER
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
From ten to one hundred days fine and imprisonment of six months to three years shall be imposed, on anyone who:
I.Votes knowing that they do not comply with the requirements of the law;
II.Votes more than once in the same election;
III.Does proselytism or objectively pressures the electors on the day of the electoral day inside the polling stations or in the place where the voters are lined up, in order to orient the direction of their vote;
IV.Obstructs or intentionally interferes with the normal development of the votings, the scrutiny and computation, the transfer and delivery of the electoral packages and documentation, or the adequate exercise of the tasks of the electoral officials;
V.Collects at any time, without cause provided by law, voter credentials of the citizens;
VI.Solicits votes for pay, gift, promise of money or other reward during the electoral campaigns or the electoral day;
VII.On the day of the electoral day violates, in any way, the right of the citizen to cast their vote in secret;
VIII.Votes or attempts to vote with a voter credential of which they are not the holder;
IX.On the day of the electoral day carries out the transport of voters, restricting or attempting to restrict their freedom for the casting of the vote;
X.Introduces into or removes from the ballot boxes unlawfully one or more electoral ballots, or takes possession of, destroys or alters ballots, documents or electoral materials, or prevents in any way their transfer or delivery to the competent organs;
XI.Obtains or solicits a signed declaration from the elector about their intention or the direction of their vote, or that, by means of threat or promise of pay or gift, compromises their vote in favor of a determined political party or candidate;
XII.Prevents in a violent manner the installation of a polling station, or intentionally assumes any conduct whose purpose is to prevent the normal installation of the polling station; or
XIII.During the eight days prior to the election and until the official time of the closing of the polling stations that are in the zones of the most western time zones of the national territory, publishes or disseminates by any means the results of surveys or opinion polls that make known the preferences of the citizens.