FAQ: How Real ID will affect you

CNET/News.com ^ | 6 May 2005 | Declan McCullagh

[tahiti]

"Being a resident in California and knowing full well that both the DMV applications as well as the Voter Registration require citizenship but (by law) do NOT request proof of citizenship when applying,"

If I understand your remark above correctly, California DMV personnel are required by law to ask for proof of citizenship from a state driver's license applicant and are not following the law.

Wow, what arrogance by your state employees.

I do not follow your reasoning that "national standards" are going to solve this problem.

I would suggest you contact your federal Congressional members, both House and Senate, and remind them of their constitutional duty:

Article I, Section 8, Clause 15

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions:

And, Article IV, Section 4,

The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion;

I would say that if the Congress cannot even perform their clearly stated, enumerated powers, as described above, how can free people, who have delegated their sovereignty to a federal government expect a new, blatantly unconstitutional law, national standards for state driver's license applicants, to be anymore effective?

And Californians have already proven, by the behavior of the state DMV personnel, that Californian's, as federal personnel, will not properly enforce the Real ID Act as well.

Thank you for your time spent having this dialogue with me.

[AgThorn]

If I understand your remark above correctly, California DMV personnel are required by law to ask for proof of citizenship from a state driver's license applicant and are not following the law.

Actually, no ... DMV requires that a person applying for a license must check a box that says that they are a citizen or not but DMV employees are NOT allowed to ask for proof. One must just take the applicants word. This is the same for voter registration. The arrogance is not at the worker level, it is in Sacramento and other states that are slowly waking up to what is going on.