* faster production of the license as applicants receive them within one
* week, rather than three to four weeks required by the current system.
*
* The new system also features simplicity of operation at work stations
* and enhanced on-line help for probate judge/license commissioner issuing
* clerks.
*
* The Sandia system produces fully digitized photos and signatures of the
* holder and combines them with demographic and graphic text, which is all
* printed in a single pass on the front and back of a composite polyester-PVC
* card. The card's front is three different colors and has a secure
* holographic overlay.
Digitized signatures? I've started signed 'X' for UPS, since they'll post
your signature to the Internet.
Well, at least there's no biometric information!
Is there?
* How convenient that only 7 months after Sandia scored the drivers
* license contract, DPS decides it will quietly (without any vote)
* implement rules requiring fingerprinting and barcoding on Alabama
* drivers licenses -- which Sandia specializes in -- just like they are
* doing in Communist China!
*
* Your papers, Comrade! (When can we expect the police with machine
* guns to examine our cards to protect us from counterfeiters?)
*
* The press release only mentions that Alabama gave a contract to produce a
* "holographic" driver's license to Sandia Labs.
*
* It mentions nothing about fingerprints, computers or barcodes. Where does
* anyone use a "counterfeit driver's license"? If Driver's Licenses were what
* they are claimed to
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