The Real ID Act essentially forces states to create a national ID.Under the law, state drivers licenses will only be accepted for"federal purposes"-like accessing planes, trains,national parks,and court houses -if they conform to certain uniform standards.The law also requires a vast national database linking all of the ID records together.Estimated costs of $12 billion or more will be passed on to the states and,ultimately us |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)