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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (20043)	11/15/2001 12:24:42 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

The only way a national ID would make sense would be if there was a foolproof way of cross-checking to make sure that each person in the database was unique, and I really don't think the technology to do that exists yet. Virginia was one of earliest states to require convicted felons to give a blood sample for DNA testing, and it's taken years to compare those samples with other samples collected at old crime scenes. Same thing with fingerprints. It takes a long time to get them cross-checked, even by computer.