Colombia. For the process of registration of cédulas, called 'zoning' in the Caribbean Region, the National Registry of Colombia announced that it will install 1,300 biometric machines in its headquarters throughout the country.
"The automation of the electoral process prevents the impersonation of citizens, the trafficking of votes and the registration of ballots of dead people," said in Bogotá, the National Registrar, Carlos Ariel Sánchez Torres.
The biometric model of registration of identity cards, through an electronic machine, will make a fingerprint comparison of whoever registers through a fingerprint reader and will immediately confront this information with the encrypted barcode that each yellow card with holograms has and with the National Identification Archive.
In addition to having an updated census day by day, this automated model allows to review and detect the signatures of the dead that appear on the registration forms, which will quickly report those cases to the Attorney General's Office, Sánchez said.
However, the risks of illegal registrations by the so-called 'backpackers', who are responsible for setting up the millionaire purchase and sale of votes for candidates for public corporations, such as Congress, Assembly or Councils, will not disappear completely: the electoral organization will not have enough of these new teams to attend the entire process that starts on March 9.
