Repeal Real ID legislation: May 1, 2009
http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?ld=1357&PID=1456&snum=124 Last year Maine overturned our VERY strong opposition to Real ID when we succumbed to Homeland Security wunderkind Michael Chertoff's blackmail threats to keep Mainers off airplanes and out of federal buildings if we did not adopt Real ID. Just one short year before we were the first in the nation to say NO to Real ID. That law is still on the books but has been made null and void by the blackmail induced law passed last year. As it turns out; the other states that held firm were NOT kept off airplanes or out of federal buildings. We blinked. We lost. Those of us who worked to oppose Real ID last year have a bill in this year to REPEAL the Real ID law that forced us into compliance with this very bad law. Here is the language of that bill. PLEASE come to the State House on May 1st to testify in support of the repeal. Repeal Real ID May 1, 2009 10 a.m. Transportation Committee [1st floor of the State House Room 122] Bill text: http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?ld=1357&PID=1456&snum=124
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Real ID....Real Expensive
- Implementing Real ID will cost far more than the state or feds suggest.
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Sen. Dennis Damon's Floor Speech on Real ID
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Sec. of State Matt Dunlap's Real ID Testimony
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Real ID Law Explanation
- The law with notes from KMc. In red important points to note. In Blue, comments on issue with law.
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ACLU Real ID
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Privacy Coalition
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Legislation - LD2304 and LD2309
- The difference between LD2304 and LD2309.
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LD2304
- PDF of LD2304.
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LD2309
- PDF of LD2309, Public law 648.
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LD2309 - Fiscal note
- Bogus fiscal note attached to LD2309
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RealID Biometric Fact Sheet
- From the Stop Real ID Coalition, a discussion of biometrics as applied to RealID. Additional applications for RealID - to enter a national park or school, or to cash a social security check.
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Proposed Legislaton to Stop Real ID
- From the Stop Real ID Coalition, some proposed legislation to stop RealID.
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Big Brother Pizza YouTube
- An excellent audio/visual on how Real ID can effect us long term.
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Internationalizing Real ID
- Testimony in Pennsylvania on intent to internationalize Real ID.
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Real ID Q/A LD 2309 and LD 2304
- Two page summary of LD 2309, the Maine Real ID law and LD 2304, the Maine residency law which the Governor uses to confuse the issue between needing to be a Maine resident to get a Maine drivers licsense [we are NOT repealing], with the law that complies with Real ID [which we ARE repealing
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Real ID Explanation on WERU June 5, 2008
- This is a very good overall story on Maine's recently passed Real ID law, the federal Real ID Act of 2005 and both the implications and realities of both.
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Maine's original Real ID opposition Law 2007
- Maine almost unanimously [only 4 votes against] opposed complying with the Real ID Act of 2005 just one year ago. This law is still on the books and makes it abundantly clear that Maine would never implement Real ID.

