>>10547378 (pb)

Real ID is a badly-written law with even worse implementation. One huge glitch is that Real ID requires people's full, legal name on the ID. Which then propagates throughout the person's life, on bank accounts - and then checks - and then credit cards, and then club or group memberships, etc.

Very many people do NOT want to be constantly identified by their full, legal name. Many people, even prominent politicians, go by their middle name. Very many people - most, I think - prefer not to use their middle name. Some use a first initial then their middle name.

Then there are nicknames, by which people's entire social circle and professional life identify them.

One obvious example is California's Jerry Brown, whose actual name is Edmund Gerald Brown.

The way Real ID was written and implemented, it becomes a cruel dictatorship document which deprives people of the fundamental right to choose how they are addressed and identified.

If you pay attention, you will notice many other examples of people whose preferred form of address is NOT their full, legal name. If we must have a national voter ID, which would infringe on States' Rights BTW, it must not dictate what our name is, but allow us freedom to choose how we will be identified. Meanwhile, Real ID must be repealed or at least amended to restore our fundamental right to choose our own names.