Rebeca Gutierrez (not her real name) had her purse stolen along with all her documents, including her “cedula” (the national identification and voter registration card all in one). Her identity was stolen when her “cedula” was altered by switching the photograph for one of a Haitian woman. Several months went by before Rebeca realized that her credit history had been damaged, because when she applied for credit at a store, she was told that she did not qualify because she had taken 18 loans, none of which had been paid. She did not think that this identity theft would have greater consequences. Later, she gave birth to a son and her partner went to a Civil Registry Office to declare the birth but could not. Why? Because the Haitian woman who took her identity got married with her altered “cedula” and the Civil Registry told Rebeca’s husband that this could not be his son because his wife was married to another man, meaning that he could not register him.
In addition to this, the Central Electoral Board (JCE) received a group of 58 false “cedulas” from the Immigration Department on 12 December and another batch of 74 on 5 November, which adds up to 132 false documents seized recently. An investigation is now underway. The 58 false “cedulas” included 13 documents with the category of “foreigner” which have the same code number on the back (100900299) and the signature and the name of the current JCE president, Roberto Rosario Marquez. The legal data belongs to Weliton Antonio Martinez Jimenez, who appears registered in the Civil Registry Office of the First District, Book 65, Folio 53, of 1994. There are reports that the Department of Immigration delivers as many as 40 altered “cedulas” a week to the JCE.
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