States challenge nat'l driver's license

[axi]

Aren't these forms of ID more easy to counterfeit?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by MarkG
how do you open a bank account if you dont have ID?

You go get one.

[Victor Galis]

Birth Certificates and Soc Sec cards aren't photo IDs though.

[Jon Miller]

No, but they are how you get your photo ID.

JM

[MarkG]

do any of these ID's have fingerprint information on?

[Kuciwalker]

Presumably so, unless you wear gloves all the time.

[Jon Miller]

Lol.

But those of us who have never had security checks or been in the prison system are not fingerprinted.

I have never been, for example.

JM

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
But those of us who have never had security checks or been in the prison system are not fingerprinted.

I have never been, for example.

so the US goverment has more info on me (fingerprints, photo, eye scan from when i got my visa) than on you

i guess if you're already in the US you're more trusted not to blow stuff up

[Imran Siddiqui]

I think it's a good policy not to trust Greeks like Markos

[SlowwHand]

When you get a driver's license in Texas you get finger printed.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
Why shuold you need to prove your identity?

In fact, you don't have to have a driver's license, and many don't.

JM

Actually, all sorts of people ask you to prove your identity, and if they are non-thinking retail- or government-service goons (and almost all of them are), they get completely flummoxed when they have to "think outside the box" and accept something that isn't a driver's license.

Back in the 80s, I lived with a woman who didn't drive, and who wrote checks a lot (this is before the debit-card revolution). She would attempt to use her passport as an ID when she wrote checks, which seemed logical: it was issues by the US government, contained a photo, and had a unique ID number. My hand to God, she would have had an easier time trying to use Confederate currency...

[Jon Miller]

Yeah, my roomate doesn't have a US drivers license and they have issues with him.

JM

[Arrian]

I don't see why a standardized drivers liscense is problematic for privacy reasons. Somebody educate me on that one.

As for the money, yeah, unfunded mandates bad.

-Arrian

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Arrian
I don't see why a standardized drivers liscense is problematic for privacy reasons. Somebody educate me on that one.

I think the argument is that the federal government is mandating much more information be collected on drivers than states currently take.

[Arrian]

So it's a cross between a normal drivers license and a national ID card...

-Arrian