Posted on 09/26/2020 10:25:19 AM PDT by re_tail20
Well, it's finally happened.
After years of effort and warnings and threats, with Oklahoma becoming compliant, the Federal Government has officially declared that all 50 States are now compliant with REAL ID.
So now, to obtain State Identification Cards and Driver's License Cards, all 50 States have the same minimum requirements and standards.
For all our Republican States - Democrat States divisions right now, at least we have this in common - and right now we could use everything possible in common.
Decades ago I lived in CA and had to deal with the legendary DMV.
But—I will never forget the two hours stuck in the DMV line next to the hottest women I had ever seen in my life....
Sometimes lemons turn into lemonade. :-)
Now it must be compliant to be able to vote.
But we still have people hiring all those illegal aliens.
We’ve been plotting our departure for a number of years. Jobs and an 89yr old mom are keeping us captive for now. Retirement is right around the corner. Been traveling and looking for a place but haven’t settled on one. Some Californians end up polluting the places they move to- CO, OR, ID, NV and the pandemic is only accelerating that. My husband and I grew up in the bay area when people were still sane. It was wonderful, even when our kids were growing up, it was a leave it to beaver neighborhood. All the moms and dads had similar expectations for all the kids. The last 10-15 years it’s gone downhill in so many ways. It’s just headspinning and sad.
The CA DMV is a good example of bureaucratic leftist hell.
Last time I had to go to a CA DMV in the LA area, I thought I had walked into a Mexican bull fight arena. It was unreal. I think I was the only person who spoke English. After about 1.4 hours of standing there like a dummy, they called my #, number 1302. At the window the woman who could barely speak English snarled at me like I had just murdered her children. Then things went down hill from there. The entire experience was horrific. I recall walking back to my vehicle mumbling over and over, I gunna get the eff out of this state.
Tell me about it!
35 States - 70 percent - require some additional form of ID along with a signature in order to cast a vote.
https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_identification_laws_by_state
It’s not surprising that some of the 15 States that don’t are the most Democrat and Liberal - such as:
California
New York
Illinois
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Oregon
Pretty much anyone who knows Stop means Arrêt, Alto, Tingzhĭ, or? can get one...
Umm, sorta.
Missouri allows residents the option of either realid or not.
The difference? The non complaints get the same card minus the star emblem. Still requires full verification of citizenship and residency but the documents are not fowmrwarded to the fedgov.
Can’t fly or enter a fed facility with it.
Real ID is the wet dream of centralists, internationalists, socialists and bureaucrats.
The obsession of control over others is an ugly one.
My wife has been trying since Feb. 2020. Then appointments were 3 months out. She showed up and was told that starting in March they had canceled all existing appointments because of Covid and she had to start again. She then made another appointment for August. When she went to go that morning, she found they had unilaterally changed her appointment to another DMV office on the other side of the city, which she couldn’t get to. So she had to make another appointment. She is now scheduled for early December.
May I ask what state you are in?
I live in WA State and have just gotten the Enhanced Drivers License that is “Real ID.” I also use a US Passport when in doubt for “Real ID.” The “normal State Driver's License and ID cards are not “Real ID.”
From the federal DHS website:
“......Requirements of the Act and implementing regulation, DHS will issue a Final Determination of Compliance to the state.
Q. Can jurisdictions meeting the standards of REAL ID continue to issue non-compliant REAL ID drivers licenses and identification cards?
A. Yes. REAL ID allows jurisdictions to issue identification cards and drivers licenses that are not in compliance with the requirements of the Act. Those licenses and identification cards, however, must clearly state on their face and in the machine readable zone that the card is not acceptable for official purposes.
Q. If my state issues an Enhanced Drivers Licenses, is that sufficient for my state to be REAL ID compliant?
A. State Enhanced Drivers Licenses (EDL) designated as acceptable border-crossing documents by DHS under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) are acceptable for official Federal purposes (i.e., boarding a commercial aircraft, accessing a Federal facility, or entering a nuclear power plant). However the existence of an EDL is not sufficient to consider the state to be in overall compliance for purpose of determining whether a Federal agency may accept a states regular drivers license for official purposes. For example, a Federal agency could accept an EDL issued from a state but not be able to accept a standard drivers license from that same state..........”
Hawaii
Yet the democrats will let in the rest of the world to destroy our nation.
I just made an appointment to renew my Oregon drivers license. The appt is on November 24. No appts are available at the two DMV offices closest to me. I need to travel 35 miles to the third closest office.
Meanwhile, my current license expires on Oct 25.
I used to live on Oahu, but I’ve never set foot anywhere in the state of Hawaii.
I’d invite you to Texas but there are no vacancies, sorry.
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