IT'S HERE!!!! All 50 states agree to upgrade driver's licenses

Boston Globe Online ^ | 1/14/02 | Ross Kerber

[Jethro Tull]

Officials from all 50 states have agreed to cooperate on upgrading driver's license security features, giving momentum to efforts to turn the licenses into de facto national identity cards.

The state officials may also seek $70 million or more in federal funds to study issues like how they might include data such as fingerprints or digital photographs on the driver's licenses, which are carried by more than 200 million Americans.

[Jethro Tull]

"Officials from all 50 states have agreed to cooperate on upgrading driver's license security features, giving momentum to efforts to turn the licenses into de facto national identity cards."

Sadly, the KOOKS were right once again.

Our government, for years, has ignored the invasion of America by illegals and "40 year old students" on visas. Now that we've allowed this vermin into out home, we,
the law abiding American citizens, must be watched more closely.

I send a special "well done" to all Pubbies who supported America's (non) immigration policy and to their allies, the Libertarian Party, who include an open border policy in their party platform.

[kellynla]

Trouble is in Kalifornia you don't have to be a citizen to get a driver's license and when you apply for the driver's license you can also sign up to vote. Hence the large amount of illegals who vote for liberal Dimwits.

[Uncle Sausage]

Will we be able to upgrade to Elite, Silver, Gold, Titanium, Plutonium or Neptunium status someday?

[Sabertooth]

Trouble is in Kalifornia you don't have to be a citizen to get a driver's license and when you apply for the driver's license you can also sign up to vote.

Bingo.

Law-abiding citizens assume burden after burden, encroachment after encroachment, while in the meantime the White House is floating trial ballons of Amnesty by another name for colonistas, and food stamps for immigrants.

Pro-Surrender politicians will not get my vote... even if their last name is Bush and they're otherwise popular.

[Slyfox]

Trouble is in Kalifornia you don't have to be a citizen to get a driver's license and when you apply for the driver's license you can also sign up to vote. Hence the large amount of illegals who vote for liberal Dimwits.

Same as here in Texas. My job as a precinct chairman was made extremely difficult at the last election because of motor-voter. I was told that if someone claimed to have signed up at the motor-voter thing I HAD TO LET THEM VOTE, without ever knowing if they were even a citizen. There was no way on God's green earth I could determine if they were a citizen on Election Day.

Once again and forever Bill Clinton bites us in the behind.

[MissAmericanPie]

Document checking for fraud, it is to laugh. Well for sure our next president will be a Demoncrat, wonder who they will run? Heil Hillary everybody.

[kassie]

Just makes me sick!!

[Darth Sidious]

Paging Claire Wolfe... paging Claire Wolfe...

Is it "that time" yet?

We are individuals, dammit. Not numbers.

[Sabertooth]

...here in Texas. My job as a precinct chairman was made extremely difficult at the last election because of motor-voter. I was told that if someone claimed to have signed up at the motor-voter thing I HAD TO LET THEM VOTE, without ever knowing if they were even a citizen. There was no way on God's green earth I could determine if they were a citizen on Election Day.

Once again and forever Bill Clinton bites us in the behind.

No excuses for Clinton, but much of what you're complaining about is a function of state law, no?

In California, it was the sate Democrats who forbade the DMV from determining residence status before registering voters and issuing drivers licenses.

Who was the Pro-Surrender Governor of Texas when you were a precinct charman?

[Lazamataz]

It's fascinating to me that National Identity Cards are required for everything EXCEPT voting. For voting, no identification is permitted whatsoever.

[Harrison Bergeron]

When the "National Employment Database" was created on a state by state basis, requiring all newly hired employees to be registered into law enforcement computers that record their whereabouts and salary, ostensibly for the purpose of tracking down child support debtors, everybody - even conservatives on FR - thought it was a good idea.

Now we'll have a "National Driver's Database." So, what's the difference? Why is one a good idea and the other a bad idea?

[CJ Wolf]

"I send a special "well done" to all Pubbies who supported America's (non) immigration policy and to their allies, the Libertarian Party, who include an open border policy in their party platform."

too bad none of those who you blame are not in power to blame, unless by "pubbies" you are including the repubbiescrats... Look to yourself, I thank you.

[Fury]

Now we'll have a "National Driver's Database." So, what's the difference? Why is one a good idea and the other a bad idea?

I suppose it depends on what type of information is included on the upgraded driver's licenses. Does anyone have any idea what type of information will be included?

[classygreeneyedblonde]

I still don't see how this is going to stop terrorism..........what about the people that don't drive?

[BlackbirdSST]

By failing to check whether they were issuing licenses to valid recipients, many state bureaucracies ''have failed miserably, decade after decade,'' said Shane Ham, senior analyst at the Progressive Policy Institute. OK, let me get this straight. We are going to increase security by issuing tamper proof ID cards by using as proof of ID, easily forged documents. When this comes to be, just how are we to provide proof we are who we say we are. It would seem if the ID I now carry is good enough for the state to issue me a different ID, then there is no need for the additional ID. Blackbird.

[Poohbah]

If they don't drive, they'll have to HIRE transport, and that's much easier to monitor, as you have a limited number of chokepoints for access to transportation.

[TADSLOS]

Next up...vehicles that won't start without a swipe from your "identity card".

[Grig]

Ontario (Canada) the new drivers licenses look like some fancy credit card. On the front is a picture of you, on the back you signature (printed on the card itself from signature you give them when the picture is taken), a magnetic strip and a bar code.

I recently moved, so I needed to update the address on my license. They didn't need to take a new picture or have me sign it again, they kept my picture and signature on file from when I first got the new license. The bar code on the back of both my old and new license are identical as well.