"Real ID" for flying ?

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Why is it required to prove your identity to fly, but not required to vote?

no constitutional right to fly, is likely one aspect. Also the historic disenfranchisement issues that have come from adding stipulations to being able to vote (poll tax, reading tests, etc) make voter ID efforts more difficult to enact.
 

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Have my passport and even still the state will become compliant when it is 100% needed until then your regular ID will work just fine. As an added benefit a passport gets you through those border patrol checkpoints without a bat of an eye. Came back through two of them and just took my passport out and held it up, got a quick wave within seconds while everyone else had to answer questions and actually stop.
 

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Have my passport and even still the state will become compliant when it is 100% needed until then your regular ID will work just fine. As an added benefit a passport gets you through those border patrol checkpoints without a bat of an eye. Came back through two of them and just took my passport out and held it up, got a quick wave within seconds while everyone else had to answer questions and actually stop.

that last part might depend on where you are. We flew back from Toronto (great town) and went through US customs on the canadian side. They still asked questions. Same with coming back from mexico a few years ago.
 

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that last part might depend on where you are. We flew back from Toronto (great town) and went through US customs on the canadian side. They still asked questions. Same with coming back from mexico a few years ago.
Yep. You never know. Years ago (after 9/11) we took a C-5 down to Warner Robbins AFB for heavy maintenance and flew back commercially. One of the pilots (named Larry and was from Nebraska...so yes, the whitest most country dude you have ever met) couldn't fly for more than 3 days because he was on the no-fly list. Never mind the fact that we had *just* flown an airplane that could carry 166 TONS of jet fuel and landed at an airport 10 minutes away...
 

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Ummm...didn't I just hear on the news this morning that you need Real-ID or passport or you can't fly in nine more days.

I'm not sure I was completely awake so maybe not.
 

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Ummm...didn't I just hear on the news this morning that you need Real-ID or passport or you can't fly in nine more days.

I'm not sure I was completely awake so maybe not.
That's what the media would like you to think. Oklahoma has a waiver that expires on October 10th, but the state has applied for yet *another* waiver...which they most likely will get, otherwise a LOT of people wouldn't be able to fly.

https://www.ok.gov/dps/FAQs/REAL_ID_FAQs.html
 

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I stand to be corrected but I thought I heard on the noon news that all states were told to get the "Real ID" process implemented ten years ago but Okla. and three other states have been dragging their butts for some reason......wonder how come ?
 

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