'Real Id' Law Bad for States and Individuals ; If Maine and Enough Other States Resist It, However, There's a Chance It Can Be Repealed.

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The state of Maine may or may not be able to fend off the federal law requiring states to create a new driver's license for nationwide identity purposes by itself. Not opposing it, however, will let the idea take hold without much debate over its potential pitfalls.

And pitfalls there are, as pointed out last week by a news conference and nearly unanimous vote in the Legislature on a nonbinding resolution opposing the idea of a state-generated national ID card.

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'Real Id' Law Bad for States and Individuals ; If Maine and Enough Other States Resist It, However, There's a Chance It Can Be Repealed.

The resolution calls on Congress to repeal the federal Real ID Act, which was passed in 2005 to ...

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