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0 pointsjandrewrogers1y ago0 comments

A passport is an ID. However, it is not mandatory and some State governments do not recognize it as a valid ID for legal purposes. In the US, the power to issue authoritative IDs resides with the individual States, not the Federal government, which creates many interesting edge cases.

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pvg1y ago

some State governments do not recognize it as a valid ID for legal purposes.

Do you know which state governments?

tptacek1y ago

I don't believe this is true, and the reason I don't is that this question nerdsniped me and I looked up every state and found that they all, every one of them, including the ones that made me click into PDFs to verify the fact, accept passports as identification in order to obtain Real ID drivers licenses.

(Also I have writers block).

pvg1y ago

Hah, thanks, I sort of suspected as much, weird as US id stuff is. Like if you'd told me 20+ years ago that the federal government can't get states to standardize their ids even in full anti-terrorism super saiyan mode, I'd have thought that was bullshit too.

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pvg1y ago

some State governments do not recognize it as a valid ID for legal purposes.

Do you know which state governments?

tptacek1y ago

(Also I have writers block).

pvg1y ago

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