P.R. Laws tit. 16, § 961f
(a) The United States presidential and vice presidential candidates nominated by any national political party that has participated since 1979 in any of the processes provided in the Compulsory Presidential Primaries Act, §§ 1321 et seq. of this title, shall appear as candidates on the electoral ballot of the presidential elections that shall be conducted in accordance with the dispositions of this chapter. Once the results of the National Conventions of the parties referred to in this subsection are made public, the Chairperson of the Commonwealth Elections Commission shall be under the obligation to take the measures needed for said candidate to appear on the presidential ballot of Puerto Rico.
(b) Candidates for the presidential election may also be nominated, by any other national political parties or persons who, without having participated in the processes under §§ 1321 et seq. of this title, have sworn petitions notarized by a notary public and file them before the Chairperson of the Commonwealth Elections Commission subscribed on behalf of their candidate for President. The total number required shall be eight thousand (8,000) valid petitions which shall be filed at the Commonwealth Elections Commission on or before sixty (60) days prior to the date of the presidential election. Each elector shall sign, under oath, a petition of endorsement in behalf of one single candidate for President of the United States.
Notwithstanding the above, for the election to be held on November 7, 2000, the total number of petitions required shall be four thousand (4,000). These petitions shall be filed within fifteen (15) days from the effective date of this act.
The Chairperson of the Commonwealth Elections Commission shall adopt through a Resolution the rules and the special form to carry out the provisions of this subsection. The contents and design of said form shall allow the identification of the subscribing elector, information on the issue and filing of said form with the Commonwealth Elections Commission.
History —Sept. 10, 2000, No. 403, § 2.2.