The Plurinational Electoral Organ is the independent electoral branch

Electoral branch

The electoral branch of a government is a branch of government, co-equal to or autonomous from others such as the legislative or judicial branches, which coordinates and adjudicates the conducting of elections...

 of the government of Bolivia. It replaced the National Electoral Court

National Electoral Court of Bolivia

The National Electoral Court was the government-appointed court which oversaw elections and electoral results at all levels of Bolivian government from 1956 to 2010, and supervised nine Departmental Electoral Courts in each department...

 in 2010. The branch consists of the 7-member Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the nine Departmental Electoral Tribunals, Electoral Judges, the anonymously selected Juries at Election Tables, and Electoral Notaries, as well as three operative branches. Its operations are mandated by the Constitution and regulated by the Electoral Regime Law (Law 026). The seat of the Organ and of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal are in La Paz; while the ruling MAS-IPSP party offered the headquarters to Sucre during the controversy over capital status during the 2006–07 Constituent Assembly, negotiations were inconclusive. In June 2010, the Bolivian Senate rejected calls from Chuquisaca

Chuquisaca Department

Chuquisaca is a department of Bolivia located in the center south. It borders on the departments of Cochabamba, Tarija, Potosí, and Santa Cruz. The departmental capital is Sucre, which is also the constitutional capital of Bolivia.-Geography:...

 parliamentarians to place the headquarters in Sucre.

The Organ's operative branches are the Civil Register Service , the Intercultural Service for Strengthening Democracy , and the Technical Unit for Oversight . The Civil Register Service is charged with continually maintaining the electoral rolls and consolidates the functions of registering birth, marriage, death, biometric identification, and residence. The UTF audits and ensures the transparency of parties and political organizations.

The first election to be supervised by the new Organ will be the judicial elections of late 2011

Bolivian judicial election, 2011

The first Bolivian judicial election was held on 16 October 2011. The national vote was held to elect magistrates to serve on the Supreme Tribunal of Justice , the Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal , the Agro-environmental Tribunal and members of the Council of the Judiciary...

, followed by special municipal elections.

Supreme Electoral Tribunal

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal oversees elections nationwide. It consists of seven members, six of whom are chosen by the Plurinational Legislative Assembly and one designated by the President. There are also six alternate members chosen by the Assembly. The members of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal are as follows:

Name	Office	Designated by	Term Began
Wilfredo Ovando	President	President Evo Morales Evo Morales Juan Evo Morales Ayma , popularly known as Evo , is a Bolivian politician and activist, currently serving as the 80th President of Bolivia, a position that he has held since 2006. He is also the leader of both the Movement for Socialism party and the cocalero trade union...	15 August 2010
Irineo Valentín Zuna		Plurinational Legislative Assembly	15 August 2010
Ramiro Paredes		Plurinational Legislative Assembly	15 August 2010
Wilma Velasco		Plurinational Legislative Assembly	15 August 2010
Fanny Rosario Rivas Rojas		Plurinational Legislative Assembly	January 2011
Dina Agustina Chuquimia Alvarado		Plurinational Legislative Assembly	January 2011
Marco Daniel Ayala Soria		Plurinational Legislative Assembly	January 2011