Real ID gets left by wayside after Gibbons' order expires

If you've never voted in your life this would be the one thing to start. Stand up like Nevada did. No one should be forced to have all their personal information on a chip that can be hacked at any moment.

clipped from www.lvrj.com CARSON CITY -- High security driver's licenses won't be issued by the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles for now or anytime in the near future. A proposed DMV regulation to give citizens the option of securing the Real ID-compliant driver's licenses was not placed on the agenda of Friday's Legislative Commission, a spokesman said Wednesday. That leaves the agency with no authority to issue the licenses, which it calls Advance Secure Issuance licenses. Citizens needed to show extra identification before being issued the new licenses. A temporary regulation issued by Gov. Jim Gibbons that allowed the new licenses expired on April 30. In the first four months of the year, 46,000 Nevadans had secured the Real ID licenses, including 21,000 who were not required to under the regulation. The Real ID Act of 2005 was a move by Congress after the 9/11 attacks to prevent terrorists from securing legitimate identification. The next deadline is May 2011.

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