Fabiola Martinez
La Jornada Newspaper
Friday, November 28, 2025, p. 10
Twenty-two state search commissions have not signed collaboration agreements with the National Electoral Institute (INE), which affects the efficiency of this support.
“There are currently 30 agreements that are pending signatures,” said Carla Humphrey, president of the INE Federal Voter Registry Commission, while citing the states in this absence and asking them to expedite the signature.
“The instruments will allow them to access in a legal, secure manner and in accordance with the principles of personal data protection to the information that the INE safeguards, for the benefit of the search and identification of people,” he said during the General Council session.
Establishing a framework agreement with the Attorney General’s Office and specific agreements is also being analyzed to strengthen the support of the INE in the face of this “lacerating situation” that the country is experiencing.
This electoral body has a unique database, with information on just over 101 million citizens, and for 13 years the 10 fingerprints have also been uploaded.
The report mentions the increase in this problem, which means a record of 120,271 missing or unlocated people in Mexico.
The operation of this support works through 41 agreements signed with prosecutors’ offices, search commissions and forensic bodies, to whom the biometric base is offered.
“The results confirm that these instruments are working. More than 98 thousand identification requests responded to with more than 34 thousand positive responses to carry out these recognitions,” added Humphrey.
Other advisors, such as Dania Ravel and Uuc-kib Espadas, and party representatives said that this collaboration is one of the most human dimensions of the INE’s work. Espadas mentioned that one year has passed since the kidnapping and disappearance of Olin Hernando Vargas Ojeda, son of an electoral body worker. “The atrocious scourge has touched the INE. The scourge has reached us.”
