Chapter II

Article 81.
The election of the President and Vice-President of the
Nation, shall be made in the following manner:-The capital and
each of the Provinces shall by direct vote nominate a board of
electors, double the number of Deputies and Senators which
they send to Congress, with the same qualifications and under
the same form as those prescribed for the election of
Deputies. Deputies or Senators, or officers in the pay of the
Federal Government cannot be electors. The electors being met
in the National-capital and in that of their respective
Provinces, four months prior to the conclusion of the term of
the out-going President, they shall proceed by signed ballots,
to elect a President, and Vice-President, one of which shall
state the person as President, and the other the person as
Vice-President, for whom they vote. Two lists shall be made of
all the individuals elected as President, and other two also,
of those elected as Vice-President, with the number of votes
which each may have received. These lists shall be signed by
the electors, and shall be remitted closed and sealed, two of
them (one of each kind) to the President of the Provincial
Legislature, and to the President of the Municipality in the
capital, among whose records they shall remain deposited and
closed; the other two shall be sent to the President of the
Senate (the first time to the President of the Constituent
Congress).

Article 82.
The President of the Senate (the first time that of the
Constituent Congress) all the lists being received, shall open
them in the presence of both Houses. Four members of Congress
taken by lot and associated to the Secretaries, shall
immediately proceed to count the votes, and to announce the
number which may result in favor of each candidate for the
Presidency and Vice-Presidency of the Nation. Those who have
received an absolute majority of all the votes in both cases,
shall be immediately proclaimed President and Vice-President.

Article 83.
In case there be no absolute majority, on account of a
division of the votes, Congress shall elect one of the two
persons who shall have received the highest number of votes.
If the first majority should have fallen to a single person,
and the second to two or more, Congress shall elect among all
the persons who may have obtained the first and second
majorities.

Article 84.
This election shall be made by absolute plurality of votes,
and voting by name. If, on counting the first vote, no
absolute majority shall have been obtained, a second trial
shall be made, limiting the voting to the two persons who
shall have obtained the greatest number of suffrages at the
first trial. In case of an equal number of votes, the
operation shall be repeated, and should the result be the
same, then the President of the Senate (the first time that of
the Constituent Congress) shall decide it. No scrutiny or
rectification of these elections can be made, unless
three-fourth parts of all the members of the Congress be
present.

Article 85.
The election of the President and Vice-President of the
Nation, shall be concluded in a single meeting of the
Congress, and thereafter, the result and the electoral lists
shall be published in the daily-press.