Comments on: "Real ID" a National ID card

By: no big brother

no big brother — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:27:18 +0000

Wake up Americans! This Real ID Act is no more then a plan by the powers to be to control all, have you not read Rev. 13:16-18, this is just one of the first steps in making this come to pass.

By: Q

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:40:44 +0000

william cooper told everyone about these ID cards in 1988 and they called him crazy. this is all part of a much larger and more disgusting plan. take a step back people and look at the big picture.

By: REAL ID costs: $11 billion, double time at DMV - Homeland Stupidity

REAL ID costs: $11 billion, double time at DMV - Homeland Stupidity — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:26:22 +0000

[...] The REAL ID Act, passed in 2005, requires states to issue identification cards which conform to federal requirements by 2008, or they won’t be accepted by federal authorities, and people won’t be able to enter federal buildings, airports or receive federal services. But the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t yet determined what the requirements will be. [...]

By: REAL ID to cost states at least $2.5 billion - Homeland Stupidity

REAL ID to cost states at least $2.5 billion - Homeland Stupidity — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:49:00 +0000

[...] Passed in 2005, the REAL ID Act requires states to redesign their driver license and identification cards by May 11, 2008, to conform to federal regulations set by the Department of Homeland Security. After that date, the federal government will not accept identification cards that do not conform to the requirements, and people in such states would have to carry a passport in order to enter federal courts, airports and other federal facilities. [...]

By: Real ID Act: You’re going to pay - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity

Real ID Act: You’re going to pay - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:09:50 +0000

[...] State governors are warning that costs of driver licenses and IDs will skyrocket under the Real ID Act of 2005. “It’s outrageous to pass this off on the states,” said Republican Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, incoming chairman of the National Governors Association. “You’re essentially asking the front-line clerks at the DMV to become an INS agent and a law enforcement agent.” — Associated Press [...]

By: The Real ID nightmare - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity

The Real ID nightmare - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:11:56 +0000

[...] The Real ID Act was passed as an amendment to an Iraq war funding bill last May. Among other things, it requires that states check several databases to confirm the identity of applicants, to keep copies of documents for several years, to show the person’s principal residence and full legal name on the license, and to perform background checks on motor vehicle department employees. Each of these provisions is expected to cost millions of dollars per state. “It is just flat out impossible and unrealistic to meet the prescriptive provisions of this law by 2008,” Betty Serian, a deputy secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, said in an interview. [...]

By: One year of homeland stupidity - IO ERROR

One year of homeland stupidity - IO ERROR — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 04:31:25 +0000

[...] Read about the Real ID Act, which is now law, passed under the guise of anti-terror and anti-illegal immigration, but does nothing for either. It will quadruple the cost of your driver license, though, and make you much easier to track in government databases. [...]

By: - IO ERROR

- IO ERROR — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 02:33:52 +0000

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By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Thu, 05 May 2005 23:02:44 +0000

Mark,

Many places got more votes than they had eligible voters.

This sounds more like a failure of the local election commissions to properly cross-check voters and determine who had voted or not. Requiring ID of voters won’t solve this problem, when someone can just go to two polling places, show the same ID, and vote twice, because the election commission doesn’t know how to, or refuses to, synchronize their data between polling places and between days. It’s quite possible to do this in real time and utterly prevent someone from voting twice, but I can’t think of anywhere offhand that does it.

Around here, during early voting, you could vote early at any open early voting place in the county. On election day, each voter had two polling places they could choose from, a primary and an alternate. But there was no evidence that the fact that someone had voted was being synchronized between the polling places. They did synchronize after the election, but by then it’s too late.

By: Mark J

Mark J — Thu, 05 May 2005 21:54:26 +0000

I’m torn on this. Drivers licenses are already a fairly universal form of ID. And how else should we cut down on the rampant voter fraud in states that don’t require photo ID for voting purposes? Many places got more votes than they had eligible voters.