Two tickets for deputies
The electoral advisor Uuc-kib Espadas Ancona will present a key proposal to the General Council of the INE: allow citizens to vote directly for multi-member deputies in the 2026-2027 federal process.
The initiative proposes dividing the election into two ballots. One will contain the relative majority candidates; the other, the group names of those who the parties nominate as proportional representation.
Espadas announced that he will present his model to his fellow councilors at the end of September or beginning of October.
Cost and logistics
The counselor acknowledged that issuing an extra ballot would imply an additional expense of between 200 and 250 million pesos, within the usual INE printing package. However, he pointed out that, after the experience of the election of the Judiciary in 2025, it would be possible to put both ballots in the same ballot box and do the counting separately, as is already done.
No need for legal reform
Espadas clarified that the INE has the power to implement this change without a legal reform. According to him, the April electoral reform was the right time to legislate it, but the authority can act on its own.
“The electoral authority does have the possibility of implementing two ballots for the election of deputies even without this legal reform, I insist, since this would fully guarantee the freedom of voting through the two current election methods,” he explained.
The debate is just beginning, but the proposal opens the door to a transformation in the way federal legislators are elected.




