Primarily, you assume the government agency that assigns SSANs is actually at all interested in making certain that those numbers are secured, monitored, are allowed to be used as a method of identification, and cares if they are used in any fraudulent manner.
ie, my SSAN is embossed on my USAF “dog tags”.
That's right, the little metal ID tags I was issued during BMTS in 1979 was only supposed to be used to identify my dead body.I still have them.
The original printed paper card my employer is required to make a copy of,and I am supposed to safeguard the original of, is supposed to prove my identity today.
I can print a thousand different numbered and named fake SSAN cards for about $10.00.
Ask any illegal alien about that. They all have two or three, and are very happy that the Feds make it so easy for them to forge!
As to any database supposedly secured by the Feds - did you learn nothing at all from Snowden?
I'm guessing you have no idea why former spooks hate Pollard.
But one simple basic check level of a picture ID requirement for registered voters prior to voting, sends certain people into conniption fits.
Sigh.
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Oh don’t be silly. The Federal Government issues unique SSN’s to individuals and keeps excellent records to that effect.
In your example of illegals securing forged cards, let’s say they try to vote using that number. It either won’t be in the official system or it will come up with a different name, address, photo ID, etc., and the illegal foolish enough to try to vote using that number could easily be apprehended.
By the way, I have similar dog tags. They are what convinced me that the government had no intention of adhering to the original principle that the numbers were not to be used for other purposes of identification. However, that doesn’t mean that the database is corrupt. It’s probably the one thing the government has a decent handle on, in fact.
Under my proposal voting in different states or precincts within a state would be easily detected. ID cards offer no such protection. They simply ensure that the person voting is who he says he is.