Provide more funding for voter registration security

Fabiola Martinez

Newspaper La Jornada
Friday May 27, 2022, p. 7

Yesterday, the executive general board of the National Electoral Institute (INE) approved a budget increase for the direction of the Federal Register of Electors (RFE), of just over one million pesos, to set up an electoral roll supervision center, with the aim to prevent cyber incidents, such as data leakage.

In the meeting of the board, the head of the internal control body of the INE, Jesús George Zamora, expressed his approval of this type of investment, but at the same time suggested the preparation of a report on the way in which personal information is protected. that citizens deliver to the RFE.

In addition, detail what measures that direction has taken to avoid the intrusion and leak of the information of the register, currently integrated with the personal data of 93 million 831 thousand 801 citizens, according to the most recent update.

He also asked for clarification as to why only the purchase of a blind is being requested in a unitary manner. with a cost of 172 thousand pesos; in addition, accessories, keyboard, mouse, quantity one, but with a cost of 134 thousand pesos.

I believe that the institute has made considerable efforts, but given the incidents that have occurred in this regard, it must continue to reinforce the subjectI consider.

“It is important that in this session –or even with a thickening in the respective agreement– antecedents can be given regarding how the executive management of the RFE has faced this problem, what measures has it taken to precisely avoid the intrusion and leak of information from the electoral register?”, he pointed out.

René Miranda, general director of the RFE, reported that the comptroller’s suggestions would be attached; He pointed out that this project aims to implement additional security measures to control the technological infrastructure and thus preserve its confidentiality, integrity and availability.

He mentioned that The need was detected to have a monitoring center for the electoral register that allows analysis and follow-up of incidents in the field of cybersecurity and protection of the information that citizens submit to the INE..