Overview
- Service resumes after Christmas on Dec. 26 and then from Jan. 5, 2026, according to the INE notice.
- The INE urged people to keep their scheduled appointments to make full use of available capacity.
- More than 800 MACs handle voter ID issuance, registration updates, replacements and corrections, and procedures require an original birth certificate, a valid photo ID and a recent proof of address.
- Separately, the INE awarded the 2026–2031 voter-card production contract to a consortium of Cosmocolor, Icards Solutions and Talleres Gráficos de México after a technical and economic evaluation.
- In Congress, the PRI called on states that have not signed biometric collaboration agreements with the INE to do so to support the search for missing persons.