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It's more an issue that there is no unified, universal ID system in the US. Different states do things differently and have different requirements. I'd be more
by brendoelfrendo 5y ago
It's more an issue that there is no unified, universal ID system in the US. Different states do things differently and have different requirements. I'd be more in favor of an ID requirement if there was a universal, free, accessible ID system in place, but there isn't, and implementing one is a similarly fraught political question.
- christkv 5y agoEveryone has a social security number you could expand that to be the basis for a federal level id system like most other western countries.
- brendoelfrendo 5y agoYou could, except currently a SSN is used more like a shared secret or password than a unique identifier. I would think that a green-field approach would be better than stapling yet more functionality onto an overloaded number that was never designed to be used the way we're using it.
- post_from_work 5y agoThe Department of Defense uses EDIPI, which is basically a second SSN-like number used to identify you for less-secure/serious stuff short of healthcare, etc... https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Electronic_Data_Interchange_Personal_Identifier https://itlaw.wikia.org/wiki/Electronic_Data_Interchange_Per...