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Blank Birth Certificates Stolen: Illustrates Weakness in Proposed National ID

The Denver County Vital Statistics Office recently discovered that it lost a large number of blank birth certificates, death certificates, and an electric city and county seal. This equipment could be used to create false breeder documents for the purposes of obtaining a National ID card. This theft illustrates why even a total overhaul of the state driver's license system would do little to increase security.

Branch Theft section of the AAMVA Web site.
EPIC National ID Page.