• DoomBot5@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    There are non-driver IDs that are equivalent to a driver’s license, but don’t allow you to drive. The real issue is that these are state IDs. We don’t have any national form of ID besides SSN and passport

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      9 months ago

      Yay for “RealID”? Let’s take the worst of both worlds: state issued ID that has to be compliant as a federal ID and be backed by data infrastructure to agglomerate it all to effectively a national ID

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        9 months ago

        Yet here we are, delayed by 5 years to even require it as a valid ID for flying. So many wins with this system.