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> In the U.S., there is in fact not one federal ID, but instead we use state IDs. That's only partially true. We also have federal IDs: passports, passport ca
by toast0 1y ago
> In the U.S., there is in fact not one federal ID, but instead we use state IDs.
That's only partially true. We also have federal IDs: passports, passport cards, permanent resident cards, DoD Ids, Transportation Worker IDs. There's also some other federally issued IDs listed as Real ID compliant [1], but I've never seen them so I didn't list them.
[1] https://publicpoint.fnal.gov/get-connected/Shared%20Documents/Documents/REALID-Compliant-Documents.pdf https://publicpoint.fnal.gov/get-connected/Shared%20Document...
- jchw 1y agoThat's not exactly what I mean though, I really mean to say that there's no federal ID that you can basically rely on people having. I totally get that there are actually federal IDs, and probably could've worded that a bit better. What I really mean is that among IDs you might expect every citizen to actually have, state IDs are basically the most reliable and even that only gets you around 99% of the way there.