Use of AI in Electoral Remedy Procedures (LGSMIME, Article 6 Bis)

What it is. Adds a Chapter I Bis to Title II of the General Law on the System of Electoral Remedy Procedures (Ley General del Sistema de Medios de Impugnación en Materia Electoral) to regulate the use of AI tools in remedy procedures.

Who. Sen. Agustín Dorantes Lámbarri (PAN). When. Introduced before the Permanent Commission (Comisión Permanente) on July 8, 2026. Status. Referred (turnada) to the Joint Commissions on Justice; on Analysis, Monitoring, and Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence in Mexico; and on Legislative Studies, Second.

Guiding Principles

Subjects the use of artificial intelligence tools to ten guiding principles: legality, transparency, traceability, human oversight, explainability, personal data protection, non-discrimination, accountability, proportionality, and information security. Responsibility for judicial proceedings and rulings remains with judges (personas juzgadoras) and public servants with judicial functions: AI cannot replace legal reasoning, automatically evaluate evidence, determine contested facts, or make decisions without human intervention.

Why It Matters

This is one of the 14 mirror initiatives (iniciativas espejo) that Senator Dorantes introduced on July 8, 2026 to insert the same chapter, "On the Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools," across nearly all Mexican procedural law—from administrative contentious proceedings (derecho contencioso administrativo) and labor law to criminal, commercial, agrarian, and military law—as well as a reform to Constitutional Article 17. Collectively, they pursue a single standard: AI as an auxiliary tool, under human oversight and without replacing the judgment of those who decide or rule.

Sources

Observatory IA Mexico archive card. Summary verified against official source.