PNJ Viewpoint: New rules for driver's licenses are absurd

TEOTWAWKI wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:
Good for your mom, Gunz.  I hope she sent copies to all the major newspapers and to our state and national legislators.  These idiotic laws need changing.  

No we need more laws. Why have  legislation if it isn't  busy making us all criminals they can prey on for revenue ?...They got show us who's in charge you peon peasant serf slaves.

New law, wipe front to back no more than 3 times.
Never swallow your chewing gum.
No standing chairs to change a light bulb.
I got a million more...

Floridatexan wrote:

Markle wrote:

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:http://www.pnj.com/article/20140119/OPINION/301190009/Viewpoint-New-rules-driver-s-licenses-absurd

...I realize the reason for this ludicrous law is to prevent illegal aliens from getting driver’s licenses. Well, guess what – all it will accomplish is to make them drive without licenses! I personally am appalled that I must go and apply for certified proof that I was married to a man who has been deceased for over a year. It’s like tearing open a wound that has not yet healed, a reminder of something that was precious to me but no longer exists. So thanks, state of Florida, for proving once again that you really show a lot of common sense when you wrap additional red tape around our lives!

If my driver’s license has been legitimate for 56 years and my last name has been legitimate enough for your purposes for the past 52 years, I should not have to prove its legitimacy now...

Curious, if your license has been legitimate for 56 years, how are you 62 years old?  Fifty six would make you 72.  Which is fine by why the deception?

As for proof that you were married to someone who is deceased, just pull a certified copy of the death certificate you have in your files and you're all set.

If you're not here legally, you don't get a drivers license.  Seems pretty simple to me.

Can you not read?  This is a viewpoint in the PNJ.  Nowhere does this woman claim to be any other age that she is.  This law discriminates against women, who are the ones who assume the name of another when they marry.  She's a widow, who got her first driver's license in 1956; if she was 16 at the time, that would make her most likely 74, since she's already renewing her license, which indicates she had a birthday in 2014.  It's beyond ludicrous that anyone who already has a license should have to produce the documentation now required by the DMV to renew.  This lady's comment is dead on.

Floridatexan wrote:

TEOTWAWKI wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:
Good for your mom, Gunz.  I hope she sent copies to all the major newspapers and to our state and national legislators.  These idiotic laws need changing.  

No we need more laws. Why have  legislation if it isn't  busy making us all criminals they can prey on for revenue ?...They got show us who's in charge you peon peasant serf slaves.

New law, wipe front to back no more than 3 times.
Never swallow your chewing gum.
No standing chairs to change a light bulb.
I got a million more...

Very funny, FEMA guy.  I'm sure most of this ridiculous extra paperwork is because of the "Patriot Act", which needs to be repealed...as does the NDAA.  And what happened to the Privacy Act of 1974?  

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:This even extends to online renewal of auto and/or trailer tags at Janet Holley's wesite. In order to log-in to just see what you owe for your tag, you must type in your  DL number, a verificaiton number on the back of your DL, and the last 4 of your social. Alternatively, you must enter the VIN number of your vehicle and a number from your registration form for said vehicle, and then the last 4 of your social.

It is a real pain-in-the-poop. Just to pay your registration online.

Dreamsglore wrote:

Ghost Rider wrote:

Dreamsglore wrote:You're not looking at the new regulations of 2010. All the certificates must be certified. No copies. You must also link the names by certified copies from your maiden name. If your were married twice you must have the marriage licenses and divorce decrees. So you need your birth certificate,two marriage licenses and a divorce decree-all certified.

No you are right Dreams. I was looking at the http://www.dmvflorida.org/renew.shtml site. I also had to have mine renewed last week since my birthday was on the 16th and all the paperwork I took to the DMV was copies. There was nothing certified in any of my paperwork. All my certified paperwork is locked up in a safe deposit box at my bank. Whether they need certified copies or not, I do not know, but I do know from experience that I did not have certified copies of anything.

You will get a letter like Gunz' mom saying you have 60 days to get the certified copies and your license will only be good for 60 days.

cool1 wrote:I had to get certified copy of birth cert--to get mine renewed --and husband had to get his from Texas -copy of bills--marriage that's about it. In Escambia county--they put yellow star on your DL----If you don't have the yellow star on it then you have to show all that -mine has a star so I don't have to show all that proof again -that's what the told me.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:This even extends to online renewal of auto and/or trailer tags at Janet Holley's wesite. In order to log-in to just see what you owe for your tag, you must type in your  DL number, a verificaiton number on the back of your DL, and the last 4 of your social. Alternatively, you must enter the VIN number of your vehicle and a number from your registration form for said vehicle, and then the last 4 of your social.

It is a real pain-in-the-poop. Just to pay your registration online.

Floridatexan wrote:I'm sure most of this ridiculous extra paperwork is because of the "Patriot Act", which needs to be repealed...as does the NDAA.  And what happened to the Privacy Act of 1974?  

ppaca wrote:I had mine renewed last year, nothing had to be certified. They asked for my social, birth certificate and an electric bill.

Markle wrote:
I do think the law should be changed to require this level of identification to vote.

BirdyBack wrote:

Markle wrote:
I do think the law should be changed to require this level of identification to vote.

Are you shitting me?  Hello, Jim Crow.

BirdyBack wrote:

Markle wrote:
I do think the law should be changed to require this level of identification to vote.

Are you shitting me?  Hello, Jim Crow.

BirdyBack wrote:

Markle wrote:
I do think the law should be changed to require this level of identification to vote.

Are you shitting me?  Hello, Jim Crow.

Sal wrote:

BirdyBack wrote:

Markle wrote:
I do think the law should be changed to require this level of identification to vote.

Are you shitting me?  Hello, Jim Crow.

KA ... FUCKING ... POW!!

Chrissy wrote:

because requiring ID to vote doesn't unfairly affect black folks.

Sal wrote:

Chrissy wrote:

because requiring ID to vote doesn't unfairly affect black folks.

Well, that's just plumb ignorant.

2seaoat wrote:Well, that's just plumb ignorant.

I wonder if she could have passed the literacy test at the poll during Jim Crow era restrictions to vote......I think those folks could in their own mind justify the purpose, but they sure did not take that literacy test, and if a paragraph was required to be written, I am sure many of the people who were restricting access to the polls would not pass.  The only purpose to the restrictions on id requirements is to restrict people from their ABSOLUTE right to vote......