DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The “cedula,” the official ID card of all in the Dominican Republic is expired. The Central Electoral Board (JCE) has announced a pending procedure to issue new cards to all. But behind the process is a major challenge. As reported, there are an estimated 2.8 million cards that were issued irregularly.

This means the effort to issue new cards also encompasses the major legal entanglements of cases of people who knowingly or unknowingly acquired fraudulent identities. The matter is worse because based on the fraudulent identities, others were issued to their descendants and now need to be corrected. Thus, the issuing of new IDs needs to find solutions to the millions of people who may find their daily lives seriously impacted and turned upside down as the JCE civil registry officials sort out who is who.

A recent report in El Informe con Alicia Ortega gives...