[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.

[alpowolf]

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

DING! DING! DING! That's the winning answer! No database is any better than the data that's in it.

[testforecho]

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.

Well, depending on how secure you want ID to be you would need a national birth/death registry and tamperproof birth certificates. (P.S. this isn't just me, the Heritage Foundation recommended the same thing last week)