From this article, The Real ID Act requires all new driver's licenses to include digital photographs, anti-counterfeiting features and "machine-readable" information verifying a person's identity.The cards, which would be issued as current licenses expire, would be required for Americans using airplanes, trains, parks, federal courthouses and other places under federal control."
Although not a perfect guarantee of security it is a step forward. For those that have argued that the past national election was full of fraud it is something to feel happy about if (hopefully) such an ID is used in order to vote. (I jest, since opponents rely on voters that are felons, illegal aliens, the dead, etc.)
There are the obvious opponents, like the ACLU and Kennedy et. al. that are against a national identification standard - but I really don't recall any dissent about passports, and that is a very federal ID - photo, magnetic strip with ID information, record of travel, etc.
Hopefully the next step would be to require any employer to only employ those with proper ID (in otherwords, NO MORE employment for illegal aliens!).
From a UN email I received this am: Sudan: First UN peacekeepers arrive When 12 Nepalese soldiers and equipment arrived in Sudan this morning, they marked the beginning of the deployment of 10,000 United Nations peacekeepers and hundreds of civilian police officers who will guard the fragile peace in the struggling African country's southern region, where a 21-year civil war claimed 2 million lives. The deployment is expected to be completed by September and will consist of peacekeepers mostly from Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Kenya and Zambia.
Women and children beware - the rapists have arrived!
2 comments:
photo ID for voting is a solution in search of a problem. There is no evidence of any notable attempts to vote under another person's name at the polls. And of course the cheaper, more efficient and more fraudproof way to vote is entirely by mail...
When I was a child in Illinois I remember going with my mom to the local (designated) voting place. She had to show her drivers license and voter paperwork (whatever it was she got in the mail). Her name and ID was checked followed by her name and addresses being checked off a list. Only after her ID was checked as well as not having voted already was she given a ballot and then she went into the private area to vote.
There is no evidence of any notable attempts to vote under another person's name... - LOL - surely you're not serious!
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