[1] Vernet would obtain the Justicialist Party's nomination for Governor of Santa Fe as a compromise candidate chosen by feuding Peronist factions ahead of elections in 1983.

[2] The computerized tallying system failed during a recount of the close election, and Peronist officials themselves later acknowledged the possibility that Reinaldo would have prevailed by 12,000 votes.

[3] Governor Vernet's tenure was highlighted by his efforts to decentralize the provincial bureaucratic and judicial systems, establishing a network of municipal courts throughout the province.

Following the end of his term in 1987, his fellow Peronist successor, Víctor Reviglio, advanced numerous investigations of provincial government officials in Vernet's administration.

[6] The presidential candidate on the Federal Commitment ticket in 2011, Alberto Rodríguez Saá, nominated the former governor as his running mate;[7] they obtained fourth place.