Néstor Jiménez
La Jornada newspaper
Tuesday, July 22, 2025, p. 8
The National Surveillance Commission of the National Electoral Institute (INE) approved yesterday to recommend to the General Council of the body different modifications to the credential to vote, to strengthen its security measures. Among the proposed changes, is the inclusion of photography also on the back of the credential, in addition to a tactile element that can help identify people with visual weakness.
It’s about adopting new Vanguardian technologies and additional security elements that reinforce citizenship confidence, both as an identification instrument, as a mechanism for the issuance of vote in electoral processes
it was explained during the commission session.
In addition, it’s about strengthening it to be a safe credential and mitigate all those situations of falsification, alteration, circulation, duplicity
said the president of that instance, Alejandro Sosa.
With the unanimity approval of the representatives of all political parties in the Commission, it is proposed to eliminate the optically variable ink known as OVI, and instead, include a thermochromatic, thermoreactive or infrared ink. Also, an optically variable image reagent called Dovid would be integrated.
On the back, it is proposed to incorporate the color photography; add A small notch in the credential currency so that it can be identifiable by people who have some kind of visual weakness
and in the same way replace the optically variable ink (OVI).
At the same time, an update in the QR codes is expected to make the reference that it is, where appropriate, a credential to vote abroad, while the rest of the security measures and characteristics of the credential would remain.
For his part, the representative of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) before said commission, Justo López, said that the recent reform that establishes the use of the Single Population Registration Key (CURP) with biometric data as the main form of identification, puts at risk the update of the electoral roll
and questioned whether there will be sufficient budget for the production of vote credentials, of which the INE broadcasts a year between 15 and 16 million copies.
