New Hampshire Legislators Say No to Real ID Program
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Both houses of the New Hampshire legislature have overwhelmingly passed a bill that would ban the state from complying with the federal Real ID national identification law.
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The state House of Representatives has voted to make it illegal to pay people per signature in campaigns to gather enough support to get a measure on South Dakota's ballot.
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Attorney Eric J. Sinrod finds that the facts belie the general belief that ID theft is rampant. Still, victory is a way off.
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NEW HAVEN, Connecticut  - As many U.S. cities and states arrest illegal immigrants in raids and toughen laws against them, a Connecticut city is offering to validate them under a controversial, first-in-the-nation ID card program.
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A federal appellate court has blocked the enforcement of an Arizona law that requires voters to show identification before casting a ballot and submit proof of citizenship when registering to vote.
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A federal judge has ruled that groups   attacking a new law requiring Medicaid recipients to show proof   of citizenship do not have legal standing to make such a   challenge, a lawyer in the case said on Tuesday.
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Not compulsion - sign here to end the pain... "Various forms of coercion" could be used to accelerate the rollout of ID cards, the idea being that ID cards will remain 'voluntary' for as long as possible, while not having an ID card will become more and more uncomfortable. This, precisely what the government has intended to do all along, is stated baldly in an Identity &amp; Passport Service leak cited by the Sunday People.â¦
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Some businesses and lawmakers are worried that new identification requirements going into effect Thursday at the borders with Canada and Mexico could create widespread confusion and delays and discourage some people from making the trip.
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DRE is down and skepticism is up -- way up -- as the 2008 election season confronts the realities of electronic voting. The famously independent voters of New Hampshire (who vote today) never did go for touchscreen tabulation, but a check with states around the country finds plenty of uproar.
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A resolution urging Congress to reconsider the Real ID Act got a unanimous nod from a House committee and will be placed on the House's consent calendar for a vote.
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Federal officials ignored a host of privacy issues raised during a public comment period on the controversial Real ID Act, ACLU officials charge -- hoping apparently to palm off the problems on the next administration.
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New York, California, Nevada and Arizona are among the riskiest U.S. states for ID theft, while Wyoming, Vermont, Montana and North Dakota are among the safest, according to a study by ID Analytics Inc.
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Database revolt Hundreds of thousands of people will refuse to sign up to the UK Government's planned identity register, according to just-published research. Around eight per cent of those surveyed said they would refuse to sign up to the database even if they are fined.â¦
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The Bush administration will announce today that states will have more than five additional years to comply with its controversial nationwide Real ID program, the second such delay in a year, people briefed on the plan said yesterday.
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Police must be barred from storing profiles of innocent people on national DNA database, experts say.
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Arizona has become the first state to require proof of citizenship when registering to vote, a measure that supporters say is intended to prevent voter fraud.
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The Department of Homeland Security has given up on one of its broadest anti-terrorism data-mining tools after investigators found it was tested with information about real people without the required privacy safeguards.