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The Central Electoral Board detected about 2,990,355 records associated with IDs that require validation before the new ID is renewed and delivered, since the old one, which dates from the year 2014, has an expiration date of the year 2024.
Of those 2,990,355 records associated with IDs that require validation, the National Civil Registry Directorate has purged and validated to date 1,581,323 birth records, representing 52%, a process that will conclude in the coming months because the areas that work with this part of the process will be reinforced.
"It will not be a simple process of exchanging one ID card for another, without controls," reported the identity and electoral body, regarding the work for the renewal of the ID card for a total of 9,412,353 citizens and legal residents, of which 942,795 are minors who will reach the age of majority from 2025 onwards.
"The events must be validated, verified by our system, under the certainty that the person whose ID is being changed meets the constitutional and legal requirements and, their data has been correctly recorded in our civil registry," explained the JCE.
They also detailed that the new ID card, unlike in 2014, will come in polycarbonate material with laser burning, a chip, in addition to the QR code.
Regarding security, it will be factory-provided. The new document will incorporate a set of new innovations that substantially differentiate it from the current ID card.
In that sense and, within the new advantages that the new Identity Card and the electronic Identity and Electoral Card will have, it was pointed out that the chip it will incorporate will be secure (cryptographic circuit) that will store personal and biometric information of the citizen in an encrypted way, will use secure communication protocols to avoid unauthorized reading and will protect against cloning and manipulation of the information contained in the chip.
