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Re:In Poor, Rural Communities, Fleeing Hurricane Michael Was... by rayiner on Thursday October 11, 2018 @09:35PM (#18198454)
It sounds like the problem was bureaucracy--Georgia not being able to fix a birth certificate issue without travelling to Georgia. The solution to that is--to nationalize the bureaucracy?

It's not like a nationalized system wouldn't be dependent on administrative subdivisions. In this case, Mr. Bearden's birth information would've still been filed away somewhere in Atlanta. Likewise, any solution that involves getting those records from Atlanta to somewhere else could be implemented just as easily without having a central national ID system.

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Re:In Poor, Rural Communities, Fleeing Hurricane Michael Was... by x86_64Ubuntu on Thursday October 11, 2018 @10:47PM (#18198760)
Seems to work with car registrations. When I was in Kansas City, a police officer was able to run my tag even though I'm from South Carolina. Kind of funny how the government just simply can't do anything that might help the common man, but when it concerns authoritarian tendencies, the motivation is endless.
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