Posted on 03/02/2003 6:52:16 PM PST by chance33_98
WKRN, Tennessee
Driver's license finger scan being considered
Public safety officials see a proposal requiring driver's license applicants to submit to a new kind of fingerprinting as a way to combat fraud, but civil libertarians have concerns.
The state Legislature is considering Senate Bill 423, under which a person's finger would be scanned. The scan will identify up to 40 unique points on the finger, said David Beatty, project director of the Department of Public Safety program.
Beatty called the it ``touch signature,'' but the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma wonders who will have access to that information.
``It is a privacy issue, and we would have great concerns about what it would lead to,'' said Joann Bell, executive director of the ACLU of Oklahoma.
``There's a possibility under homeland security that the driver's license could become part of a national ID.''
Beatty disagreed, but said the driver's license has become accepted identification nationwide.
``The importance of the person holding the license and the person pictured on the license being the same is paramount. Society has dictated that,'' Beatty said.
The finger scan program would ensure the person who passes a driving test is the same person who goes to the tag agent to get a license, he said.
It also will ensure the person who goes to a tag agent to replace a lost driver's license is legitimate, Beatty said.
With the proposed new system, tag agents will be able to electronically check the license with the Public Safety Department to ensure the appropriate person receives the license.
Oklahoma issues four-year driver's licenses so it would take four years for all licenses in the state to be issued using a finger scan.
As of Dec. 31, 2.3 million people had driver's licenses and another 230,000 who don't drive had ID cards, Beatty said.
Senate Bill 423 is before the Senate and likely will be considered next week, said Sen. Robert M. Kerr, D-Altus, its author.
If the legislation becomes law, Oklahoma would join eight other states with a finger-imaging system: Colorado, Mississippi, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, North Carolina, Texas and West Virginia.
Guess what? The rest of us no longer care what you have to say. Find your own country that does what you want it to do - because Lord knows this one never was what you people try to romanticize it as.
It's not a matter of luck, it's a matter of exposing the true agenda of those who advocate force as the solution to all problems. The poster cannot answer the question directly because the founders were opposed to his brand of tyranny. These guys pull their hair out trying to figure out a way to trash the constitution without admitting it.
The liberals are more honest about it, they trash it openly.
While our borders are wide open and federal agents are assaulted along the border on nearly a daily basis, I find it laughable that "fingerprints for the American people" is the solution.
What they need to do is round up the illegals, and put a bounty on the head of any illegal entering the country.
Well, Reagan thought enough of him to make him our ambassador to the UN. Anyway, as far as "work history" goes, most of our recent Presidents have never had a real job.
And as for Paul? Beauty is only skin deep, but stupidity goes straight to the bone.
Have you actually read some of the things Paul has written? You may disagree, but 'stupid' he is not.
I doubt there are more than a dozen congressmen who can write as intelligently as he does.
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