The OEP 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 parliamentarians to place the headquarters in Sucre. The Organ's operative branches are the Civil Register Service (, Sereci), the Intercultural Service for Strengthening Democracy (, Sifde), and the Technical Unit for Oversight (, UTF). 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 was the
judicial elections of late 2011, followed by special municipal elections. ==Supreme Electoral Tribunal and Departmental Electoral Tribunals==