PRI Senators Call for Greater Protection of Personal Information on Voter IDs Victor Mayen - The News
go to original October 21, 2013

MEXICO CITY – Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) senators called for a reform of the federal electoral procedures code (Cofipe), Saturday, to protect the personal information of registered voters.

Unlike many other countries, such as Colombia, where voter ID cards contain no personal information that can be used by criminals, Mexico’s voter IDs include clearly visible addresses, putting Mexico’s 84.5 million registered voters at risk of identity theft, extortion and kidnapping.

According to the Citizen Liaison Center run by the federal police, over 50,000 cases of extortion occur each year that involve the use of personal information taken from stolen voter ID cards, while the Citizen Institute for Crime Studies reports that six out of ten kidnappers use information taken from voter IDs to threaten their victims. This week, the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) will discuss a new design for voter IDs, leading to calls by the PRI and the National Action Party (PAN) for the new design to encrypt all sensitive personal information.

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