JCE admits it cannot control fraud

[NewsWhore]

The Central Electoral Board (JCE) admitted yesterday that it will not have the capacity to control, totally, the fraud and fake documents issued by personnel attached to the Civil Registry Office (CRO) until the process of complete digitalization is completed. The process will include biomechanical data such as photographs and fingerprints in one document. The president of the JCE Administrative Chamber, Roberto Rosario, told Diario Libre that the Civil Registry cannot continue without facial recognition procedures being an integral part of the identification documents such as birth certificates, the personal "cedula" and the voter registration card. Because of the legal battle between the JCE and the SOMO Consortium, the JCE has not been able to proceed with its plans for modernizing the system. The JCE contracted the auditing of the contract, and this should be available in three months. At that time, the JCE will determine the course of the US$60 million SOMO contract for automation. Judge Rosario, the only member of the JCE from the previous administration, was key in the contracting of the Somo Consortium.

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