[GJM] fwd..Re: [FixGov] Get Real

[~Ashok]

Yes, indeed a real problem here and this time around
  perhaps, it presents a truely Real security threat....Ashok

marguerite hampton <ecopilgrim at aabol.com> wrote:
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http://governing.typepad.com/13thfloor/2007/03/get_real.html#more
Monday, March 19, 2007
Get Real
posted by Ellen Perlman
States must be crying crocodile tears over woes at the State 
Department about delays in issuing passports.

The federal government is struggling under an onslaught of passport 
applications due to tougher immigration laws and a new regulation 
requiring Americans to have passports to fly out of the country, 
including to Canada, Mexico and the Carribbean. Applications for 
passports have risen 44 percent between October and March, over the 
same period last year, according to a story in The Washington Post. 
Sixteen production facilities are working overtime, including 24-hour 
days at one center in New Hampshire to help process the 17 million 
documents. Still, there's a 10-week wait for a passport at this point.

Does this, perhaps, help the federal government understand the 
problem with Real ID? Real ID is the law that will require that every 
driver get a new, more secure driver's license. Drivers will be 
required to come into a government office and show documents such as 
birth certificates and Social Security cards to do so. No more of 
this convenient Internet stuff. And you thought lines at the DMV 
branches were bad before? You think lines at the passport office are 
bad?

There are about 300 million people in this country and adult drivers 
make up a very large portion of that. States are expected to 
implement a system to issue Real ID cards by May 2008 -- despite the 
fact that the proposed regulations for doing so weren't issued until 
early this month, even though the legislation was passed in two years 
ago.

The State Department is struggling over a 5 million application 
increase and it's not being asked to do anything new. Just a higher 
volume of the familiar. When it comes to Real ID, some of the 
necessary databases don't even exist. And the numbers of documents 
that will have to be issued far exceeds the number of passports the 
State Department is struggling with.

Does anyone see a problem here?





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