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San Francisco delays rollout of ID card program

AP — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:35:29 +0000

San Francisco is delaying a controversial program that would provide identification cards to all residents regardless of legal status.

Potter, Leno, Favre are constants for Class of '12

AP — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:29:46 +0000

Students entering college this fall have lived their whole lives in a digital world _ where GPS has always been available, phones have always had caller ID and tax returns could always be filed...

Italy scales back Gypsy fingerprinting campaign

AP — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:28:46 +0000

Italian officials carrying out a survey of the country’s Gypsy population will only fingerprint those who don’t have a valid ID, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday, apparently dropping plans to fingerprint all Gypsies after critics...

US contradicts itself over its own ID theft advice

AP — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:11:28 +0000

When it comes to the risks of identity theft, the U.S. government isn’t taking its own advice.The nation’s Medicare agency and the Pentagon compel at least 52 million Americans to carry their Social Security numbers in their wallets,...

Missouri lawmakers advance 2nd voter photo ID bill

AP — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:13:18 +0000

Missouri Republicans on Monday advanced a constitutional amendment allowing a photo identification requirement for voting and recrafted an ID law similar to one the state Supreme Court struck down two years ago.The Republican-led Senate...

Heavy turnout in some Ind. counties leads to ballot shortage

AP — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:45:24 +0000

About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow sister because they didn’t have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away her fellow members of...

Indiana nuns lacking ID denied at poll by fellow sister

AP — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:46:44 +0000

About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ because they didn’t have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away her fellow...

Candidates comment on voter ID ruling

AP — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:27:22 +0000

Democratic presidential candidates’ reactions to the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday that states can require voters to produce photo identification:___BARACK OBAMA”I disagree with the decision, but we’re going to do everything...

Advocates: Voter ID ruling may disenfranchise US voters

AP — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:39:39 +0000

The Supreme Court’s refusal to strike down an Indiana law requiring government-issued photo identification at the ballot box could disenfranchise minority and elderly voters at next week’s primary and prompt other state’s to pass...

Supreme Court says states can demand photo ID for voting

AP — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:05:51 +0000

States can require voters to produce photo identification, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, upholding a Republican-inspired law that Democrats say will keep some poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots.Twenty-five states require some...