INE INSTITUTION PREIVERSE If the CURP becomes the main identity document

Néstor Jiménez and Lilian Hernández

La Jornada newspaper
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, p. 13

In a first diagnosis of the National Electoral Institute (INE) on the initiatives of legislative reforms in which it is expected that the single population registration (CURP) with photography and fingerprints is the main national identification document, a possible increase in abstentionism in the elections is noticed, in addition to A negative impact on citizen trust in relation to the management of their personal data could be generated by the INE.

As part of the analysis, prepared by the Commission of the Federal Registry of Electors of the Common Body, Alejandro Sosa, Technical Secretary of that instance, he added: In general terms, we consider that it is foreseeable that the issuance of the CURP with photography influences the levels of abstentionism in the elections by reducing the relevance of the processing of the credential to vote with photography as a means of identification.

During a Board of the Commission, Sosa explained that in the transfer of biometric data to the National Population Registry (Renapo) It is not indicated if the INE must deliver the information of the electoral roll or materialize what has been said, which will be a verification of each personal record.

On the unique identity platform, which is emerging as the primary tool for consultation and validation of the CURP, he explained that it would be connected with multiple records, including transport systems, telecommunications, health, education and georeferenced, So the homes could be considered susceptible to connection for purposes outside the electoral field.

However, when presenting the diagnosis, the holder of the Executive Directorate of the Federal Electoral Registry pronounced for not seeing how A threatbut how OPPORTUNITY AREA The changes proposed to the General Population Law and the General Law in the Matter of Forced Disappearance of Persons, Disappearance committed by individuals and the National Personal Search System.

He clarified that a new study should still be done, since the legislative proposals sent to the Congress of the Union by President Claudia Sheinbaum have not been approved, after they were pause until the end of the forums carried out by the Ministry of the Interior with groups of search engines for missing persons.

He said that a detailed study will be presented with the final proposals.