The main rector of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Tania D’Amelio, reiterated on Monday in an interview that the Voter Authentication System, better known as the fingerprint capture machine, is a more rigorous guarantee of the “one voter-one -vote” principle.
This biometric system allows to verify the identity of the voters and avoid the duplication of the vote. It stores the voter’s data and checks, with the voter database of the voting center, if the voter is responsible for that center and if has not yet voted.
These two functions included in the Authentication System are complemented by another mechanism established for the identification of the voter: the voting notebook.
“The Voter Authentication System is the guarantee”, because it is the fingerprint of each voter that “deactivates the machine”, she said.
She mentioned that the only exception are those voters who lack their superior members.
In those cases, with the presence of the electoral witnesses and recording in the incident record, the president of the Electoral Board unlocks the machine, a notification that – as explained the rector – arrives in real time to the data center “Of that a person was presented with a disability where superior limbs are lacking. That is the only exclusivity”, she stressed in an interview with VTV.
In that sense, D’Amelio mentioned the importance that in those cases of voters who acquire a disability due to a situation, that information is presented and updated in the Electoral Registry, which is permanently maintained in regional electoral offices and in the operatives.
He indicated that other reasons why this information should be known and updated in the Electoral Registry is for the CNE to take the corresponding forecasts and locate voters who have or have acquired motor disability, are located at the polling stations that are on the ground floor of the centers.
Suffrage, expression of democracy:
On the other hand, D’Amelio stressed that in Venezuela the exercise of suffrage, despite not being mandatory, is exercised in a massive way, which represents the democratic essence of the Venezuelan people.
“The people goes out to vote because they trust in their democracy, because they want to exercise their right and because they believe in the institutionality,” she said.
